this guide is nothing like any paddling guide that i have been able to locate on the web.... Its easy to use and the info comes from local bikers. http://216.122.13.47/trails/Default.asp Oops... my mistake was to use the term *waterways guide* which propelled the discussion in the direction of what to me are the large organized mega-tourist water trails that are quite well supported by special interest groups. indeed a web search for *watertrails* gets to those sites quite well. On the other hand, there are quite a few other places to paddle...and books (Sea Kayaking along the Mid-Atlantic coast by Venn, MD and DE Canoe trails by Gertler Exploring the Chesapeake in small boats by Williams) provide us with a guide on where to go and what to expect. However the books are not readily available to read on the web and few librarys carry a large assortment of them.... as an alternative, Paddlers (like bikers) could have a web site where individuals wrote short summaries about places that they have visited...If that data were entered in a data base format, the website could provide quick access to paddlers with accesss to the web. i think that the easist way to do this would be to have a commercial enterprise haddle the web work (following the bike example) and have input from recreational paddlers. this is probably is just a dream and not likely to become reality because paddling is a much smaller sport than biking - hence there probably would not be sufficient interest to create such a Guide.... oh well, bliven *************************************************************************** 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 Sat Apr 24 1999 - 18:00:17 PDT
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