Re: [Paddlewise] How dirty is it?

>From: "Allison Corning" <acorning_at_hotmail.com>

>Hi everyone!
>
>I guess this is directed more towards our New York paddlers or other city
>dwellers: Now, I know there is a big difference
>between paddling on top and mucking about in the bottom goo/fecal sludge,
>but I'm wondering if anybody takes special pollution precautions? How bad 
>IS
>the water? Are there certain areas you just don't go, or do you go and then
>immerse both you and your boat in a sterilization bath before pulling out?

>Allison

On summer evenings, I often take small flocks of newbie paddlers on to the 
sheltered waters of our city's inlets. Sometimes they will persuade me to 
demonstrate a roll or two (I'm very vunerable to big, admiring female 
eyes:-). Though Vancouver,BC no longer has any heavy industry in the 
downtown area, it does have a sewage outfall or two, and the beaches are 
sometimes closed in the summer due to bug counts in the water. So if I roll, 
I always squirt liquid Polysporin in my eyes and ears afterwards.

Philip Torrens
N49°16' W123°06'


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