[Paddlewise] Not Enough Rescue Practice

Duane said: <snip>
>>It is unfortunate that so many sea kayakers don't know how fun it is
to
practice rescues.>>

Now Duane, how da ya know paddlers aren't practicing their rescue skills
in  water?  You are so typically shallow in your Southern Californian
pretensions. <g> You're talking  postmodern California kayakers, right?
I mean, like while I admit that perhaps  three quarters of the world's
population lives as  townies now, almost _ all_ of California's mass of
humanoid droids  live as city-dwellers and/or  suburban-located sales
boobs, with one absolute thing in common: they all have swimming pools.

Yours is the land of bronze honeys and  surf hunks who must endlessly
caress their skin with minimum sun-screen values. Much of the day must
be spent tapping digital equivalents for protein and carbohydrate  food
portions into handy pocket calculators, in order to stay in the "Zone";
automobiles must be constantly bathed with diminished water supplies,
save for the environmentally sensitive who placate their guilt by using
"Dry wash" chemicals on their  huge Ford Excursions;  businessmen must
busy themselves with cinching the best real-estate deal, while leotard
clad, languid-limbed sex kittens steadily flow single file into aerobic
warehouses, where many hours must be spent by these polymorphous felines
sitting on stationary-bikes listening to the New Age philosophizing
from  the latest self-help Guru.

There is little time left for deep water rescue practice at sea by the
inhabitants of sunny California. But, then comes the evening, the end of
the day -- finally; dinner is done, the cedar shake roof has been doused
with fire retardant, and a few moments are left in the dying embers of
twilight. It may be hard to see, but if you look closely enough into the
yards of  your neighbors, there inside deepeningly Navy-blue pools, you
may catch a glimpse of a paddler or two, having fun, actually practicing
deep-end, shallow water rescues.  8-)  :-)  .-) :-)

(PS    Duane, loved your last trip report --  keep 'em coming in. Keep
the wind at your back, bro!)

BC'in Ya
Doug Lloyd   --  Who used to live in California (Lafayette, Contra Costa
County) and  who also does wish more paddlers would keep up their rescue
skills.

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