sorry, thiese replies little bit late, my mail program decides to make me crazy..... &%$$&$&$ >I've had three *interesting* experiences with weather storms. The first two >were lightning strikes in the water I remember a story happened to a close old school friend. He was paddling a river outside of somewhere, when he heard a thunderstorm several kilometre behind him. "Far away so keep on paddling", he thought. Few minutes later a lightning hits a small tree on the rivers bank 50m in front of him. The tree burns and the thunder and lightning are close behind him. Trusting the quote a lightning never hits one place twice a time in the same storm, he parked his kayak beside the burning tree and waited for the end of the storm. I´ve never been to a thunderstorm so close. So keep fingers crossed. But a few years ago I paddled with the same friend an off shore tour to an island, when lots of thunder and lightning were forecasted. All I could say, we got the best weather, no wind, no wave, no rain, just a little bit foggy. Sometimes we could hear the thunder and see some dark clouds far far away, nearby the shore. All the storms went to the shore, noone the the open sea. Next day we paddled 30 nm over a flat bottomed sea, I never thought the open sea, could be so flat. After arriving we heard the radio news and in the morning that day, two ferries crashed in a small harbours entrance in the fog. Unbelieveable! The ferries had to know their and each others position (radar), they got VHF, the timetable .... Driving on a ferry is more dangerous than paddle the open sea, believe me. 2c Jochen *************************************************************************** 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 Thu Mar 29 2001 - 05:02:16 PST
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