Re: [Paddlewise] Trip Report: Lower Columbia River, OR, USA

From: <dldecker_at_mediaone.net>
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 16:24:27 -0500
Dave 
Two pink, plastic flamingoes-- we have hundreds no thousand of them pink
plastic things in Fla. Do you want us to ship 1 or 2 thousand your way???

Dana


>Two pink, plastic flamingoes (man, that new yak has a LOT of cargo
>room!) greeted the loving couple in the morning, a suitable iconographic
>introduction to the rites of spring.  The return trip revealed massive
>work in process on tide gates (?) on one side of Tenasillahee Island,
>and a couple miles of heavy rocking on dikes, all on a deer sanctuary. 
>Why do the deer care if the tide is kept out?  Did I help pay for this? 
>Is this a harbinger of more dredge deposits and elevation of the upland
>on the island?  Time will tell.
>
>Summer is around the corner.  I wonder how many flamingoes that thing
>will hold ...?   Can I transport plastic waterfowl across the US/CDN
>border without being arrested?  I think they'd look good in Zeballos.
>
>-- 
>Dave Kruger
>Astoria, OR
>demented sea kayaker


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