>>... I want to say he was longer than 7 foot but just am glad to know they are still out there.

What an exciting thing to see. I wish you'd had time to throw a baseball cap or wristwatch or shoe or anything into the picture, to provide a sense of scale for such a whopper. Let that be a reminder to the rest of us, if we're ever so lucky... (any chance you got such a picture, maybe less quality but with an identifiable object in it?)