At 04:26 PM 2/10/2003 -0800, Shawn Baker wrote: >"Davis, Stephen G FOR:EX" <Stephen.Davis_at_gems4.gov.bc.ca> wrote: >>So far I see a few patterns emerging.... bring water, sunscreen and >shade, get permits and insurance ahead of time, paddle in the morning, >and wear zippered pants to keep the sand out... > >Here's another one: Do not drive at night. Period. >The cows come out like mad, and graze right on the side of the road, or >walk right down the middle. Daylight=no cows. Dusk=lots of prime >Mexican beef wandering the asphalt pastures. Whacking a cow in the >middle of the night will ruin your trip. While driving from California to Colorado in the late 70's I noticed a large object partially in the road up ahead on I-80 a bit west of Salt Lake City. It turned out to be a cow that suffered the same fate as those Mexican nocturnal heifers. A couple of hundred feet past the cow was a full size truck with the front end crushed. I could only imagine what happened to the occupants of that vehicle and it wasn't optomistic. > . And don't expect to find any >closed deck kayaks down en los Cabos. All SOT's...so bring a folder if >you're taking the airline down. That seems to be fairly common in warm water environment especially with outfitters which get a predominantly inexperienced clientele. When I visited Kauai a couple of years ago it took me almost a week before I could find a closed cockpit boat and they refused to rent it to me because the claimed I wouldn't be able to get back in if I capsized. When I told them I'd offer to demonstrate that I could roll it they said there were probably only 5-6 people on the island that could roll. *************************************************************************** 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 Tue Feb 11 2003 - 16:55:28 PST
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