Live Grizzly Cam

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Okay, sorry, this is totally superflous...but totally cool!!!

http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm ... index.html

And the trouble they go through to bring this to us?

"Getting the live video signal from the falls to computer screens worldwide is a pretty straight shot. “It’s all line of sight,” says Michael Yourkowski, of Alaska’s SeeMore Wildlife Systems. “The antennas have to be aimed at each other.”

The webcam’s wireless microwave technology starts with a camera hidden in a fake boulder that sits on the riverbank at McNeil Falls. The microwave signal is relayed to a transmitter on a hillside less than a mile away. Then it is picked up 30 miles (48 kilometers) northeast atop volcanic Mount Augustine on Augustine Island. From there the signal travels 70 miles (113 kilometers) farther to a bluff in the city of Homer and on for three more miles (five kilometers) to Homer’s Pratt Museum. The camera is controlled from the museum, where the video feed is relayed to servers at RealNetworks, Inc. in Seattle, Washington. From there, the live streaming video is published to the Internet through National Geographic Society in Washington, D.C., where viewers access it online in real time."