Hi John and All, > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-paddlewise_at_paddlewise.net > [mailto:owner-paddlewise_at_paddlewise.net]On Behalf Of John Fereira <Snip> > On the other hand, you could probably hear them coming from 15 miles away. > As Kelly Blades said, "use all of your senses...okay, maybe just your > sight and ears; smell and touch are probably not going to help you and... > tastes...that's just too weird to talk about" Strangely enough I think smell counts for sure. One of the things I used to love when guiding in the fog (thick can't see 20 yards Maine fog) if it was dead calm, is that I could smell the islands before I could see them. Suddenly the smell would change from sea to conifer and duff. If there was a slight breeze you could feel yourself come into the lee and feel the temp change before you could see the islands. And if the tide was out you could smell the seaweed or mud (definitely could smell the mud) before you could see anything. Sometimes you could smell someone grilling on a sailboat before it was within sight too. Fun stuff that fog. Cheers, -- Rob Cookson "I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the Atmosphere." Thomas Jefferson in a letter to Abigail Adams, February 22, 1787. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced/forwarded outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Thu Aug 03 2000 - 12:41:42 PDT
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