In a message dated 5/15/2000 2:10:05 PM Central Daylight Time, pmaun_at_bitstream.net writes: > My primary stomping > grounds is Lake Superior which has about four cups worth of sand in > the entire lake. Now Patrick, that is a bit of an exaggeration. :) Lake Superior has hundreds of miles of some of the best sand beaches in the world, and will probably have hundreds more as it continues to dry up. (The lake has lost about 9 cubic miles of water in the last year to evaporation and lack of snowfall and is headed for record low levels this summer.) Of course, that still leaves about 2000 miles of rugged rock shoreline for scratching your boats up. -Andy Knapp Minneapolis *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
Not only that, but when I read Patrick's post an image came to mind, and it was the image of standing on a hill on the Southwest corner of the Isle of Jersey in the Channel Islands, UK, in a strong westerly blow, and watching the waves crash and rise 100 feet or more into the air, and thinking: My God, I'm glad I'm not out there right now. I also thought of much of the Western coast of Ireland. . . . Seems to me the conditions that are regularly offered up by the English Channel, and the Irish coast, and the difficulty of much of the coastline, makes even Superior look rather inviting. Not that Superior doesn't have some serious conditions. But jeez. BTW, for some fun reading recounting (and occasionally exaggerating) trips through the English Channel and cetera, I recommend Tristan Jones. . . . just for fun. Mark L > > My primary stomping > > grounds is Lake Superior which has about four cups worth of sand in > > the entire lake. > > Now Patrick, that is a bit of an exaggeration. :) *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
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