> ----- Original Message ----- as a sea > > kayaker, I have this vision of piling up driftwood to stay out of the soup > > while trying to get a night's sleep. > > > > Douglas Montgomery > > San Francisco > Arthur Hebert and I have had to do just that when paddling the Louisiana > coast several years back. (We just wished there were driftwood available.) > The fresh water swamps hereabout can become impassable in late > summer, -completely clogged with a beautifully flowering, floating water > hyacinth, (Eichhornia crassipes) that folks locally call "lilies". The story > is that lilies were brought as ornamentals by a South American country to a > world's fair or similar exposition and the flowers given away. Thus > imported, and having no local consumers they have spread widely and can > render paddling impossible. > Lilies are flushed out into the coastal bays when the fresh waters rise and > vast mats float alongside the marsh. Their hollow bulbous (floating) bases > can be dragged up into the marsh and piled to give a few inches of elevation > above the fetid muck. It ain't classy camping but it permits one to be > there. > I expect that paddling the Louisiana coast may help when we find ourselves > in similar situations along the coast of Campeche on the southern gulf. > Larry Koenig > www.lacostadelgolfo.com > *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
CanoeCopia in Madison Wisconsin is March 14 - 16, 2003. Although the Canoecopia web site says otherwise, the hotel connected to the convention center still has rooms. We stayed there last year and it was real nice to be able to go back to the room between sessions and not have to mess with parking. Not cheap ~$107/night. www.choicehotels.com *************************************************************************** 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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