A Sea Dirge by Lewis Carroll
Published July 15, 2009 | 
A Sea Dirge by Lewis Carroll
There are certain things as, a spider, a ghost,
The income-tax, gout, an umbrella for three…
That I hate, but the thing that I hate the most
Is a thing they call the Sea.
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Twitter Digest – 2009-07-14
Published July 15, 2009 | - Children of the Rush – Quix Blog – “She did NOT just take off again!?”, I thought. – http://digg.com/u18L64 08:37:38
- RT @DarkTower: For a limited time, receive a FREE Nat'l Parks & Rec Annual Pass w/ qualifying purchase at http://www.amazon.com/outdoors $80 value 10:43:14
- RT @OutdoorRetailer: Not small news in the world of specialty Outdoor http://tr.im/sidq Amazon Outdoor Store 10:43:39
- Hydrodynamic fits! – http://digg.com/u18MU5 11:13:59
- Ferg's Kayaks charged after fall – It happens – http://digg.com/u18MVS 11:16:20
- 5k lunch break felt great… 14:54:39
- swearing can help reduce pain – http://digg.com/d1wXQh – Now THAT is news you can use! 15:04:10
- Image from Door County – National Take An Appliance On Vacation Week – http://twitpic.com/ad6wj 15:37:42
- Image from Door County – Smile on the Beach – http://twitpic.com/ad79b 15:40:18
Rough Edge
Published July 14, 2009 | 
“There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth”
- Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
Ok, so here’s something different. I noticed this P&H Kayak while checking out boats at the Door County Sea Kayaking Symposium. The keel strip is all bumpy. Just like that paint job you so often see over drywall. I get this. It makes gripping and carrying a wet slippery kayak much easier AND protects the boat just like a strip is supposed to do. I’m sure too that it’s going to give some Uber kayaker hydrodynamic fits… (and you thought plastic vs glass was bad). Oh, and did I mention that KB posted on Twitter today that P & H has a new kayak coming down the line. He also said I would be especially jazzed by it…Really? It has a cup holder?
Children of the Rush
Published July 14, 2009 | 
Tonight Im tangled in my blanket of clouds
Dreaming aloud
Things just wont do without you, matter of fact
Im on your back.
If you walk out on me, Im walking after you
-foo fighters
It sounded simple enough. Just take a few folks on up the Mink river, a marshy, little ,slow flow river that carried water from a swamp a couple miles inland out to the big bay where the Door County symposium was held. Of course when things are too obviously straight forward, that’s about the time that it all goes pear shaped. Or at the very least you find yourself running blindly through tall grass, chasing the melodic laughter of a child whose leading you to your doom.. Continue reading
Twitter Digest – 2009-07-13
Published July 14, 2009 | - For a time we were lost. finally we found it . The boat launch opened up through wall of trees. Roy Orbison was singing "In Dreams". 06:02:46
- Student just randomly paddles off into the marshy maze without saying anything… ah…Don't Do That!! 08:35:21
- Now who's Kayak Was This? – http://twitpic.com/a85zc
08:38:07 - Door County Sign Said? – "Stay, Warning, Breakwater, Mound, Groin, Danger, Rubble, And, Off" – Word Puzzle of the Day… 09:03:00
- Quix Blog – Cave Point – "So then there was the day we took 3 novice paddlers…" – http://digg.com/u18Bn2 09:18:44
- It's probably not a paddle blog if you see the name "Ruth Bader Ginsburg".. but what do I know…? 09:55:38
- Fill in the blank… "______________ started this company because all the other _______ out there were _____. " Now cut and paste… 14:10:36
Cave Point
Published July 13, 2009 | 
A candy-colored clown they call the sandman
Tiptoes to my room every night
Just to sprinkle stardust and to whisper
Go to sleep. everything is all right.
– Roy Orbison
So then there was the day we took 3 novice paddlers out to see Cave Point near White Fish Dunes State Park in Door County, Wisconsin. It was all going along swimmingly until the waves began to build. Chatting with the students and watching their kayaks rise and fall over the ever steepening waves I began to ask myself, “ Which would be more fun for our charges; trying to round the point and paddling another mile in broaching seas, or turning around right here and making a big surf landing to re-evaluate?”. Continue reading
Twitter Digest – 2009-07-12
Published July 13, 2009 | - busy busy! big seas fri, big wind sat, big trip up the mink river today…well not so big.. 06:13:32
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