[Paddlewise] paddling at night

This is a post to the night illumination thread. I agree 
that you do not want to have too much illumination at 
night when paddling. This is an experience of mine that 
proved the point to me.
The darkest night paddle I have ever been on is when 
Bill Newman and I were on a sixty mile crossing from 
Stanard Rock Lighthouse to Caribou Island Lightstation 
on Lake Superior. When night came there was no cloud 
cover and we had no illumination from the moon. There 
was dense fog at water level and it rose up forty five 
degrees into the sky all around us. We had so little 
light that we could not even see the tops of waves. We 
broke out some lightsticks and placed them on our stern 
decks so that we could stay with each other. We found 
that we had to cover half of the four inch lightstick 
because the glare was too bright for us in such a low 
light environment.

Good night paddling,
Don Dimond  
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