The following might be interesting for the paddlers around SF Bay area. There is no charge, and it is going to be lots of fun. > COME SEE THE NATURAL WONDERS OF ALASKA'S INSIDE PASSAGE VIA SEA KAYAK. MEET > KAYAK GUIDE ROGER SCHMIDT, A NATIVE OF SITKA, ALASKA. LEARN ABOUT A VAST > WILDERNESS WITH HUNDREDS OF UNINHABITED ISLANDS OFFERING PADDLERS A > LIFETIME OF EXPLORATION. > > Where: California Canoe & Kayak > Jack London Square > 409 Water Street > Oakland, CA 94607 > > When: Thursday, April 29, - 7:30 PM > > The remote archipelago of Southeast Alaska will be featured in a slide > presentation hosted by California Canoe & Kayak. Home to humpback whales, > brown bear and frisky sea otters, Sitka, Alaska, is the center of the > world's last great temperate rain forest. For wilderness loving sea > kayakers, the region has become a Mecca. > > ROGER SCHMIDT, a native of Sitka, first experienced sea kayaking in Alaska > as an infant stowed deep in the bow of his parent's tandem boat. He > eventually paddled the Inside Passage solo, from Vancouver to Sitka, and > also completed a kayak crossing of the Bering Strait. > > There is parking available at Jack London square under the Barnes & Noble > Book Store or the Washington St. lots. Call (510)893-7833 for more > information. > > > > *************************************************************************** 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 Fri May 28 1999 - 10:34:48 PDT
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