The local paper had an interesting story last night seems two kayakers (what type of boats the paper didn't say only that one was 16'.) were camping on and island in the Chilkat inlet near Haines. They built a nice warm drift wood fire. Then just before going to bed they doused the fire and went to sleep. They awoke at 6:30 am to discover that the fire had spread from the beach to the low brush, along a 40' log, through a pile of driftwood and devoured the plastic boats! ("It was like it burned with intelligence" said one of the kayakers) All that was left was the rudder and four feet of one boat. The other boat appearently was almost completely consumed. (not enough for a souvenir according to the owner) The kayakers had to hike out including wading across the cold Chilkat inlet at low tide! They made it o.k. I guess the moral is you can't have your kayak and heat it too. Bob Sitka *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
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