4/15/08 Ken and Barb suggested it was time we put a few more miles into one of our paddle. I couldn't argue with that, we've been a tad lazy lately and coming off a 90 degree weekend it seemed the right time for a bit of a work out. So while I was up for anything, Team KB decided for a harbor paddle when we found rather unexpected wind and waves upon our launch from the Coast Guard beach. Barb would have been happy to never leave the harbor, but I always say you've got to at least stick your nose out to see what conditions are really like. But the constant head wind was a bad sign and when we hit the outer water conditions could only be described as FUN!!! So to make someone happy, we decided to put our miles in in the harbor. Turning back into the harbor, we could at least have a bit of fun trying to catch the swells rolling in. We hugged the west side of the jetty trying to ameliorate the wind a bit. I paddled close by the jetty to satisfy my jonesing for big rocks, but paid the price with a grinding cross-over of a barely submerged rock. I continued to add texture to my pristine boat by paddling next to the sea wall and through the private dock pilings. Pretty pathetic that most of the scratches on my boat now come from a harbor paddle! With the wind at our backs, we got a bit warm as we paddled down around Lido Isle. Still it was a pretty day with the occasional sun battling the threatening clouds. On the long haul back against the wind we could at least blame Barb for our predicament-had we gone even for just a BAR paddle, we'd have the wind helping us home! But at least the chat made up for the mundane scenery. Right past Kevin Costner's house we zaggeg past the dredging barge for the final paddle back behind Balboa Island. Ken's long mileage resolve was ebbing in front of the continued winds and the decision was to head back to the CG beach. Barb went right for the beach, but Ken and I put in an extra .2 of a mile to bring us to an impressive 8 miles on the day! Not as far as we'd hoped, but we had to save our energy for the carry back to the parking lot! Perhaps we had better intentions on the start of the day, but we still managed to have a nice day on the water. Having cut our paddle shorter than we'd planned, we realized we didn't manage to fit in all our chat and so reassembled at a local regal burger joint to fit it all in. Mark Sanders www.sandmarks.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 Tue Apr 15 2008 - 19:45:20 PDT
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Thu Aug 21 2025 - 16:31:29 PDT