Re: [Paddlewise] Why Peyton's water tastes funny.

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            And also an excellent point Peyton,   about overly romanticized
notions of disposal of kayaker remains........for an idea of where such a
notion might lead if the idea ever caught on like echo boxes in Mexican radio
stations,  (anyone's who's lived in California knows to what I refer),  just
look at Mother Ganges.  There is a holy town upriver that maintains that to die
there frees one from the wheel of re-birth and death.   Consequently,
everybody's dying to get there. Or getting there to die there.
........(sorry.)   The major problem is that wood for funeral pyres is pricey
if available at all, and completely out of reach for the poorest of the poor.
Still everyone wants to die there. (On one trip to India, I nonchalantly asked
my hostess for a *paper* bag for my dirty laundry.........I noted a look that
crossed her face of total bewilderment---maybe closer to panic--as if I had
asked for Dragon eggs for breakfast........later I realized that even in
prosperous Delhi  any wood product was a rarity .....I learned later to ask for
a plastic bag.....they have plenty of extruded plastic....),   the result of
this scarcity of wood is that the poor are unceremoniously or no, dumped into
the Ganges.......one can imagine the results with the sun of the Gangetic Plain
beating down on the bodies........Solution:  Introduce turtles to eat the
.......um,.... Faithful.   That seemed to work for a while..... /Further
Problem:   Turtles are all but gone as poachers are collecting turtles and
eating *them*......  So....if you love Peyton, don't come visit him in your CLC
Chesapeake with the front hatch stuffed with South Carolina bottle rockets.
        Oh yeah, and one more thing....... absolutely no more of you  clowns
cremated  in the Mississippi......it makes the water taste funny.

gpwecho_at_juno.com wrote:

> On Thu, 15 Jul 1999 18:56:56 -0400 Chris & Ellen Kohut
> <chriskayak_at_earthlink.net> writes:
>
>                 <<snip>>
> >    Still, we who venture out into wilderness situations  are  shocked
> >to have
> >to continually learn the lesson that larger cranium capacity and
> >opposable
> >thumbs may not be the last word after all.
> >    Perhaps this is what  *wilderness* means:   Disney didn't draw it.
>
> Fellow  Paddlewisers ...
> I too am deeply saddened by the subject situation.  My local river
> claimed a "careless", best friend in July, 1974 and it was late October
> before we got him out of the water.  No whitewater here, just deep and
> wide.  Earlier this week in the same river a "stupid" swimmer sans PFD
> went down for an extended fish count and has not been recovered yet.
> Point being,  that  WHENever and WHEREever carelessness or stupidity
> meets water  ....things can go horribly wrong  ...wrong   ....WRONG !   I
> may care, but the river does not.
>
> Now,  back to being my  usual ir-reverent self   .....What's the deal
> with some of ya'll talking about Viking pyrotechnic-burials, or cremation
> IN YOUR KAYAK, or dumping ashes into some river somewhere in a solemn
> ceremony ???     ......C'mon, now !  Some of us paddlers live DOWNSTREAM
> and need all the help we can get on river cleanliness.    Hey ...what's
> this stuff stuck  all over my paddleblade anyhow   !!   8-)
> ...adieu   .....Peyton  (Louisiana)
>
>
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