Doug, In a short time, I'm sure my frustrating day will turn into a great memory, but I'll always think the decision made was wrong. You're right though, I think the spring tide was at its highest of the year, but I'm not positive. Jen is always great and soothed my ruffled feathers and I guess talked Sean into letting me paddle the next day despite my nakedness, although he certainly still stressed proper dress to the Gortexed the next morn. I figured that was still for my benefit, as he seemed to be preaching to the choir. I haven't had a lot of formal instruction and quite a bit that I've had I've found disappointing, but on my next day I had good instructors who make you realize there is a lot you can learn out there. The good ship Lollygagger gave me her hundred days last year, so now it's time for her to visit Craigslist and find a new home. Perhaps with a new boat, I'll have more confidence to explore more of the CA coast that I know I've neglected. Mark -----Original Message----- From: Doug Lloyd Mark, Thanks for the candid remarks. Sounds like there was some learning going on. To me that's a great symposium. I think there's big spring tides on now so the GGB waterway would be expected to be moving along. I wonder if Jen would have done things differently. If you want to tour some of that coast, why can't you head back out some other time? I'd be all over that coast if I lived in California. As for symposia, me being on the sea does pretty much most of the teaching. DL *************************************************************************** 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 Sun Jan 11 2009 - 20:26:35 PST
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