> As I looked over I noticed the tide >had gone down to just where the mud is appearing and there in the middle of >this mud flat was a half cabin cruiser sitting in the last remaining puddle >with 3 forlorn looking men. It was late afternoon and the tide had only just >started going down, they were in for quite a wait and it would be impossible >for them to leave the boat or for anyone to go to them without sinking deep >in the mud. > >They weren't in any danger, except their egos, so I chuckled to myself and >continued paddling. I wish I had taken a photo A few years ago the Australian navy (you might have heard of Australia by now) had a ship in the port of Lyttelton, New Zealand, carrying landing craft. One of these had been out for a jaunt round Quail Island ( a shallow channel at the best of times) and on a receeding tide...... A pity one of our kayaking group, who is a photographer for the daily paper, wasn't a paddler then....... Alex . . Alex (Sandy) Ferguson Chemistry Department University of Canterbury New Zealand *************************************************************************** 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 Sep 21 2000 - 21:01:53 PDT
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