Hurray for Dave! Hurray for Dave for a well written account of an evidently much needed day around the water in Oregon. As a fellow Oregonian I was also out paddling on that very Sunday, although in Newport and not near Dave, and those same storm cells pounded my boat(and brain) with hail and rocked me with stiff winds. Thanks to Dave for expressing so much of what those days are like, and why we like them. Yeah, Oregon is not the place to expect to find anything approaching benign ocean paddling conditions, but if you want beauty and challenge... Brian Windrope Corvallis, Oregon _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free _at_yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************
Brian Windrope wrote: > > [snip]As a fellow > Oregonian I was also out paddling on that very Sunday, although in > Newport and not near Dave, and those same storm cells pounded my > boat(and brain) with hail and rocked me with stiff winds. > > Thanks to Dave for expressing so much of what those days are like, and > why we like them. You are welcome, Brian. The webs between my toes are well-established. There is something very neurotic about liking this place, I'll admit. It is probably a reaction to my location as a teenager (sunny SoCal). Proof: my 26-year-old son, who grew up here, now hates the rain and has abandoned the NW for the drier climes of CO and SE Utah. -- Dave Kruger Astoria, OR *************************************************************************** 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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