Re: [Paddlewise] The call of nature?

Many years back I was day paddling around Vancouver's beaches, when I was 
accosted by a woman in a patchwork "kayak of many colours" (they'd obviously 
seen her coming at Honest John's Really Used Kayaks). She'd basically led a 
city and sedentary life until a month or so before, when she'd been struck 
by some sort of epiphany, and had quit her job to set out on a Great 
Adventure And Journey Of Self Discovery (and good for her!) She'd noticed me 
practising my roll and had decided Providence had sent me as a kayak guru. 
We talked, and I tried to give her the Reader's Digest version of kayak 
touring. Eventually she broached the topic of peeing at sea. Never able to 
resist cracking a bad joke, I said "Well, of course for we men, it's no 
problem - we simply pop the sprayskirt and dangle "it" over the side." "Yes" 
she replied, perfectly seriously, "but what do women do?"
To this day I'm still trying to figure out whether she:
A) was the world's greatest Poker player.
B) had no experience of men whatever.
C) had experience only of truly remarkable men.

Philip Torrens
N49°16' W123°06'


>From: Kellerin <kellerin_at_ionsys.com>
>Reading the description of "the trip that nobody wanted", the author, a
>male, describes relieving himself in a bag. While canoeing we are never
>too far from shore and so I am regularly able to pull over and find a
>place to squat. But what do the female sea kayakers do when they are on
>a trip and can't pull over? I remember flying around the north with bush
>pilots who would either pee in a baggy and drop it out the window (I
>know, I know, who wants to find burst baggies lying around in the
>wilderness, or worse still, be hit by one!) or just pee in a jar. I was
>so envious of them as I wiggled around in agony trying to figure out how
>to copy them without 1) exposing myself to a stranger, or 2) peeing all
>over myself or the plane. I would really like to know if any of the
>women on this list have come up with a workable solution to this problem
>since my husband is in the process of getting his pilots license and I
>am envisioning having to relive those old, painful, memories.
>Irene



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