No doubt, Tim! They gave me a hard time later for not getting wet. I had to explain how I actually had SACRIFICED not being right in the action in order to gain a little footage. Sounded good anyway....
Joey- I'm playing around with a Canon FS100. So far, I really like it. The video quality is excellent when played directly from the SD card or burned to a DVD, but I've been messing around with how much I can compress the files in order to reduce the file size without loosing too much quality in order to upload and share. It's a really compact unit...perfect in my opinion for wagging around the woods. It also takes nice still shots with the flip of a button.
Best Buy and Circuit City both have this camera reduced $100 right now to $299 however every Best Buy in this area was out of stock. Had to drive to the CC in the next town over to find one.
Here's a link -->
http://reviews.cnet.com/digital-camcorders/canon-fs100-silver/4505-6500_7-32786399.html 
