Flying Raccoons - an animal encounter

So, I thought it a good time for another animal encounter story (inspired by The Animal Dialogues, by Craig Childs).  On yet another camping trip to Morro Bay with my family when I was young, we noticed a lot of raccoons around the campground.  They were brave and bold, and would come into the campsite and eat your food.  One night, we were sitting around the campfire making s'mores (yum!).  We saw a few sets of reflective eyes around our campsite - yes, we were being stalked by raccoons.

My dad, always taking pictures of everything, decided he wanted to snap a few pictures of the raccoon stalkers.  Mind you, this was long before the digital photography age, and his camera was an actual 35mm film camera.

Mind you too, it was dark, there were no lights anywhere.  All we could see were the glowing eyes.

My dad takes his camera and crazily starts snapping away - pointing the camera up in the air and at nothing in particular.

My brother and I were laughing out loud because there was no way the raccoons were that high up - they couldn't fly.  Hence the flying raccoons.

This is a hard tale to describe in writing - it was much more hilarious in person (and in my head).

I love my dad and his zany photography antics.  When we got the pictures developed, of course there were none of any raccoons.