It was actually Markus that got me onto this board. I was on a local board (for me), most of the summer. There was no registration on this other board at the time....it made for some interesting threads (talk about flaming....jeez)
Markus had used the fishhawk gallery to post some fish pictures on the other board,

being the inquisitive person I am, I followed the link back here. At the time, I didn't look around much, just saved it and left.
It was one of those cold, raining cat's & dog's saturdays, when I had nothing much to do except play on the computer, that I remembered this place in my favourites, and started looking around.
Originally, it was all the links & info on the home screen here that caught my eye. So I guess I lurked for a couple of weeks...though I didn't even look at the message board, except maybe once or twice.
I was looking at all the other stuff here. I spent the last day skimming through all the different categories on the message board, and it was then that I decided to take the plunge.
Funny thing is, since I joined up, I really haven't spent any time at all looking at the stuff that caught my eye in the first place.....(just too much goin on in here)
