I will be signing off (sometime this weekend) for a couple weeks. I am about to take off on my yearly sea kayak trip. I will be circumnavigating Kuiu (pronounced que-u) Island here in southeast Alaska. I will take a ferry to the Tlingit village of Kake and take off from there. the milage is 165 miles plus exploring. I plan on taking two weeks, hopefully arriving back in Kake on july forth to catch the ferry back to Sitka. I am more worried about the ferry making it then me, one of the state ferrys caught fire recently messing up the entire schedule,thankfully no one was hurt. Kuiu is known for wolves and black bear (in southeast grizzlies and black bears on islands do not mix. If you have grizzly (brown) bear they will kill off the wolf and Black bear. However Black bear and wolf can co-exist.) So I will hang my food up each night and listen for the canis lupus choir. As usual I will be solo. My work is people intensive so once a year I seek out the solitude of the wilderness. Solo trips are risky I will admit, but the emotional and spiritual benifits make it worth it. I say goodbye with a quote "The wilderness is not the only place one can listen to God, but it is there, in the intense silence, that one is more inclined to listen" David Douglas...Wilderness Sojourn somewhere amid the wind and waves Bob Sitka *************************************************************************** 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 Thu Jun 15 2000 - 16:53:31 PDT
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