John Van Ness from Austin Outdoor Gear and Guidance and the Austin Paddling Club has been working with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department to get some canoe/kayak trails started in Texas. The TP&W have already started moving on John's initiative. The Canoe/Kayak trail is to be located in the area of protection of sea grass (see http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/news/news/000601b.htm) To get a copy of the map and plan the TPW Internet site (http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/admin/about_us/financial_rpts/pdf_docs/combined planscientificarea.pdf). It would be helpful to contact the TP&W to give them notice of interest in their endeavor. John advised me that TP&W can be contacted via the "rivers" section of their web page. TP&W has already allocated money to this project and which as mentioned in his comments below, will as I understand it, provide for camping and launching. John Van Ness (aogg2_at_gte.net) wrote: There is so much potential for sea kayaking in Texas I'm glad to see this organization take root [John is speaking of Robert Stark's initiative to start a Sea Kayak Club in Houston]. I have been working with Larry Mckinney of Tx Parks and Wildlife on establishing a series of coastal kayaking trails. Their first trails have been in the shallow sea grass flats off of Port Aransas. These are more fishing oriented trail and are at this point "voluntary no motor areas". This effort is two fold -protect the sea grass from prop damage and establish easily accessible protected kayak trails. The next phase will be to start linking communities along the Texas coast by kayak. To accomplish this T P&W will assist communities by creating launching sites and mapping the trail with GPS location markers. There is a meeting this week on a proposed trail from the Port Aransas area to Rockport. I have also discussed the need for a kayak base/launch site at Port O' Connor to access Matagorda Island. If you or anyone else has any suggestions for trails in your area, please pass them along. It may be a slow process getting trails in place, but the sooner they are identified the sooner they can happen. aogg2_at_gte.net or Austin Outdoor Gear 3411 N. IH 34 Austin,Tx 78722 (512) 473-2644 fax(512)473-2628 Thanks, John ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Posted with John's consent. Robert Cline ************************************************************************ CKAYAK-TEXAS MAILING LIST Submissions: ckayk-tx_at_egroups.com To Subscribe, send an email to: ckayak-tx-subscribe_at_egroups.com To Unsubscribe send an email to: ckayak-tx-unsubscribe_at_egroups.com From: rccline_at_swbell.net -- *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue Jun 06 2000 - 17:32:01 PDT
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