1. How many of you have paddled one, two or three thousand miles cumulative? I started to paddle 18 years ago, when I was 18 yo. ... ( should I play the lotto ? --- :) ). My longest continuous trip was 1000 miles and lasted 25 days, camping almost every day. I don't have a track log but an estimate easyly pass the 12000 seakayaking plus probably 2000 whitewater. |2. How many of you have paddled the ocean for ten or more consecutive days? Well, If you reffer to the ocean strictly, I unfortunately haven't done trips that long yet. But If you're referring to open waters then I would include several trips thru rivers which are 5 km or more wide in many parts and where I had to sort all lind of general open water conditions you can imagine. The longest is this 25 days trip I mentioned before. Other of this trips includes a 30 miles open crossing of the "Rio de la Plata" as part of a 10 days long trip. This crossin took me 7 hours of continuous paddling under good calm conditions. I have never had to sleep in my kayak ... kind of difficult to achieve on a Nordkapp ... But now that I'm living in hawaii, I have no options than paddling on the ocean .. and I still have my hollidays pending ... jejeje ... ;) If yo go for a map of Argentina you will find Buenos Aires right on the coast of the "Rio de la Plata". This river is the biggest estuary of the world (some say ... ). The "Rio de la Plata" is fed by other 2 mayor rivers, the "Parana" and the "Uruguay" forming a huge Delta at the mouth. If you follow the "Parana" river uppstream (north) you will see it starts at the region of "Pantanal" (Swamps) in Brazil. The 1000 miles long trip I reffer is from the border between Argentina and Brazil, all the way down the Parana River to Buenos Aires. If you find the same locations on the globe you can see they are easily vissible, drawing a long scar on the surface. I find it exiting to be able to say that I have paddle these long scars ... as if this planet isn't so big after all ... Best regards ! Fernando Lopez Arbarello --------- Kayak Argentina --------- http://home.earthlink.net/~kayakarg entina kayakargentina_at_earthlink.net *************************************************************************** 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 Wed May 08 2002 - 11:09:23 PDT
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