Re: [Paddlewise] Spanish Victoria

On Tuesday, April 16, 2002, at 8:46:29 AM PST, Rcgibbert_at_aol.com
wrote:

[Re: Pacific Northwest waters]...

> People that paddle here are very lucky as the northwest coastline is
> quite simply one of the most beautiful and diverse pieces of land
> and seascape on earth

I quite agree! I live on the WA coast, and every day I go out paddling
(ocean, coastal rivers, or slightly inland rain forest lakes), or walk
on the beach, or ride my bicycle along the coast road, I feel
privileged to live in such a beautiful area.

For me, "Paradise on Earth" consists of the coastlines and mountain
areas from northern California to the Arctic. I currently live happily
on the Washington coast, and dream of moving to coastal Alaska (Kenai
Peninsula).

I'm sure that I would also love the western Fjords and mountains of
New Zealand's south island (and all of NZ's coastline indeed - both
north and south islands). Southwestern South America also looks pretty
good to me. And there are many other very beautiful places on this
planet I'd like to experience as well.

Tropical places are wonderful as well, but I think I'm generally more
of a temperate/arctic/antarctic type of being than I am a tropical
one.

I've even been to some very lovely inland locations, but for me - a
sea spirit - I need to smell the sea when I wake up in the morning, or
I'm just too far inland.

Melissa
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