Hi. While Sitting in for a long delay in Newark International Airport (a five hour layover) yesterday I was talking to a charming young woman from Panama. When we were talking about kayaking, nobody who has talked to me for more than a half hour has escaped hearing about kayaking, she told me that they have a Panama Canal Kayak Race every year. She said that it occurred about a month ago. Does anyone on Paddlewise know anything about this? She said that the local Shriners or Masons have a lot to do with it. It sounds like a nice goal, to paddle the Panama Canal. Mike -- Paddling along through fog so thick that only one's thoughts are visible, your reverie is abruptly shattered by the ancient cry of a great blue heron as she lifts uncertainly from the brilliant blue of a mussel-shell beach witnessed only by the brooding, wet spruce....your passage home seems as much back through time as it does through space. Mark H Hunt *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
>>It sounds like a nice goal, to paddle the Panama Canal. > I haven't paddled along it, but I've paddled across it on numerous occasions... Years ago did some field work at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, spending some time on Barro Colorado Island in the middle of Gatun Lake. You have to be in the Zone for 30 days to get a powerboat license and I was never there that long in one stretch. So I got to canoe across to get where I needed to be. Not bad but of course you had to be wary of those great big boats. I suppose if you wanted to do the length you could; it's only 50 miles or so. You'd have to portage the locks. They're huge and most of the ships using them are built to a width of maybe 6 inches narrower than the locks, so no space for anything else.... *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
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