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You lured me out of lurk mode with this one....... Right now I'm reading "The Log from the Sea of Cortez" by John Steinbeck. It's about a trip he took in the early '40s with marine biologist Ed Ricketts to collect specimens . Good reading-don't know if you've seen it. His description of the island is intriguing, talking about gold and rattlesnakes, iguanas and 4000' mountains--14' swells and 17' tides.....and later says: " Islands have always been fascinating places. The old storytellers, wishing to recount a prodigy, almost invariably fixed the scene on an island-Faery and Avalon, Atlantis and Cipango, all golden islands just over the horizon where anything at all might happen. And in old days at least it was rather difficult to check up on them. Perhaps this quality of potentioal prodigy still lives in our attitude toward islands. We want very much to go back to Guardian Angel with time and supplies. We wish to go over the burned hills and snake-ridden valleys, exposed to heat and insects, venom and thirst, and we are willing to believe almost anything we hear about it. We believe that great gold nuggets are there, that the mountain sheep, which is said never to drink water, abounds there. And if we were told of a race of troglodytes in possession, we should think twice before disbelieving. It is one of the golden islands which will on day be toppled by a mining company or a prison camp." I hope it's still as beautiful and mysterious as he describes and hasn't fallen yet.......and on he goes......great little book. -s. jorgensen --- You wrote: Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 11:40:23 -0700 From: "Sid Taylor" <tayls_at_snowcrest.net> Subject: [Paddlewise] Isla Angel de la Guarda, Sea of Cortez Konstantin Gortinski, Dan Westermeyer, Paul Roggensack and Sid Taylor went around Guardian Angel 3/28/99. Ask for information. Sid Taylor --- end of quote --- *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************
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