New Champy video! (It’s tabloid day on the In Box!)

Someone has posted a new video of a “strange sighting” on Lake Champlain, filmed with a cell-phone camera on May 31st.

The Burlington Free Press’s Sam Hemingway interviewed the photographer, 37-year-old Eric Olsen.

“I was just filming the water when, out of the corner of my eye, I saw something move, and I turned toward it and tried to zoom in on it,” said Olsen, a Web site developer and musician.
“You can see that it is moving both horizontally, across the water, and vertically, going under the surface and coming back up,” he said. “It struck me as something that was long, that it didn’t have much girth.”

The video is very cool. It looks sort of like a slightly sheepish Barney slumphing along the shoreline.

(If it’s a sea monster, it’s happily low-key…)

While I’m not a dyed-in-the-wool Champy believer, I definitely prefer this kind of invasive species to Zebra mussels, lamprey, and Eurasian watermilfoil.

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