>Doug > >Speaking of luck, I went to see Chris Duff's presentation to a pretty >much sold out crowd here in Victoria on Friday night. Very impressive >slides and narrative (though nothing like Paul Caffyn's Australian >mega-surf episodes); ............. >I think the surf and wind really >spooked him, and he mentioned that he has now abandoned his plans to >paddle around Japan (more surf and lots of typhoons, you know), When you consider Paul went on from the South Island trip to do the North Island with even more exposed beaches and eventually did Japan before Australia (read "Keep Australia on your Left" for someone else's bad surf experiences), he's got to rate reasonably highly in the skill department. The latest paddler doing the South Island managed to "crumple" his plastic kayak down on the south east corner of the island. > His arrival near Paul Caffynn's west coast hometown (Greymouth) >and its very dangerous river bar where Paul does his practice, They regularly drown fishing boat crews there - or more regularly than one would wish. Alex . . Alex (Sandy) Ferguson Chemistry Department University of Canterbury New Zealand *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Mon Mar 26 2001 - 18:53:23 PST
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