Matt wrote; > Maybe those who feel like I do should start telling tall tales of scary > encounters with Great White sharks we met out on the water to help raise > the > awareness of this very real possibility of being eaten for sea kayakers. > Discovering one is not at the top of the food chain when paddling a kayak > might clear up a lot of the damage to wilderness done by the "watertrail" > crowd. I agree that that should help. Sometimes it doesn't. When I paddled from Kujuak in Quebec around the north end of Labrador and down the coast to Nain with three other people (in open canoes so you know we are crazy :) ) One person insisted on taking a gun to protect us from the bears. I should have backed out right then when I realized I was the only person with any experience with firearms (Good American that I am). Fortunately we only encountered one bear and that one was swimming in the other direction but I wondered what would happen if I stepped outside in my birthday suit for pee and they mistook me for a skinny bear. I took to peeing in a cup and tossing it out the back flap. I bet a lot of gun happy paddlers think they could (and should) shoot their way out of a confrontation with a bear. Bad enough having to share the wilderness with the Green Pigs but imagine sharing it with armed Green Pigs. Cheers John Winters *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
On Sat, 11 Dec 2004 12:05:59 -0400 John Winters <jdwinters_at_eastlink.ca> wrote: One person insisted on taking a gun to protect us >from the bears. I should have backed out right then when I realized I was the only person >with any experience with firearms (Good American that I am). I guess George never told you that in case of pending bear attack, they were going to wing you and leave you for the bear while they made their escape. Richard Culpeper http://my.tbaytel.net/culpeper/ *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
In a message dated 12/11/2004 3:36:34 PM Pacific Standard Time, jdwinters_at_eastlink.ca writes: > I took to > peeing in a cup and tossing it out the back flap. > Sir, Cups spill too much. Down wets irreparably and synth fibres retain the stink far too long. May I suggest a pee bottle? Humbly, Rob G *************************************************************************** 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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