Aside from the issue of being swept by the tide out into something such as an ocean current, there is also the problem of what might happen out in the briny even if the tide will pretty much bring you back. Sometimes walking back is not feasible (due to deep water channels and mud flats), leaving you unprotected for extended periods where a shift in the wind could build some nasty breakers in the shallows (e.g. Hannah Bay at the southern edge of Hudson's Bay). (BTW, when I was a youngster I bunged up an empty oil barrel, lashed some driftwood to it, and happily floated out with the tide from our cottage on Oak Bay on the Bay of Fundy. I bobbed about until the tide brought me back in again. I did not realize that I would be out for so long, so I was expecting my folks to be angry with me. As it was, they were not, for as I later learned from my mother, she had spent a fair number of years as a child bobbing in and out with the tide, and thought nothing of swimming for extended periods. Sometimes I wonder how she and her siblings ever survived to adulthood.) Cheers, Richard Culpeper *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************Received on Wed Jan 27 1999 - 07:24:14 PST
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