Okay... here's one more that I was going to keep to myself, but a couple co-workers who were reading over my shoulder threatened bodily harm if I didn't spill the beans on this. But, DON'T LAUGH!!!! IT'S NOT FUNNY!!! :-) I was out on a breezy day, with my camera, looking for some good photo ops. Well, I was in and out of little coves, cuts, creeks and so forth, when I spotted a bunch of ducks in the water just up ahead. I got the camera ready, and started paddling towards them, ever so slowly so as not to spook them off. As I got closer, I gave a few good paddle strokes to get some momentum up, laid the paddle across my cockpit, raised my camera, and intended to glide closer and snap a picture of two just as they started to take off as a group. I got closer, and closer, and closer, and they hadn't been spooked yet. Not a problem... today was my lucky day! What a great close up picture this was going to be! Ahhh, NOT! Something wasn't right, and as I got really, really close, I realized what it was. I was sneaking up on about 30 or so decoys that someone had left in the water. Or, maybe they hadn't left them. Maybe they were in their hiding spot trying not to laugh too loud! Either way, I looked around and then sheepishly left. I made the mistake of telling some duck hunting co-workers about that incident. Damn, they have long memories!!!! Rick *************************************************************************** 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 Feb 04 2004 - 09:08:41 PST
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