http://www.kayakquixotica.com Tilting At Waves Sat, 04 Feb 2012 14:09:43 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2011/08/19/sea-kayak-with-gordon-brown-v2/ http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2011/08/19/sea-kayak-with-gordon-brown-v2/#comments Fri, 19 Aug 2011 16:19:42 +0000 derrick http://www.kayakquixotica.com/?p=8814 As with my review of the first edition of Sea Kayak With Gordon Brown, let me cut to the chase here.  Volume 2 includes a new trip, a bit of a history lesson, and lots of new skill work in real world conditions. V2 is a fun, tight presentation that will add to your skill [...]]]> http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2011/08/19/sea-kayak-with-gordon-brown-v2/feed/ 6 http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2011/07/25/sea-kayak-essentials-dvd/ http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2011/07/25/sea-kayak-essentials-dvd/#comments Mon, 25 Jul 2011 14:01:03 +0000 derrick http://www.kayakquixotica.com/?p=8556 The Sea Kayak Essentials instructional DVD with BCU  level 5 coach Nick Cunliffe joins an ever growing list of paddling DVDs.  If like me you simply can’t buy every DVD out there, you have to be choosy.  I’d certainly recommend that beginner and intermediate paddlers put this one on their wish list.  Coaches might find [...]]]> http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2011/07/25/sea-kayak-essentials-dvd/feed/ 3 http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2011/04/29/mega-squid-giant-sturgeon/ http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2011/04/29/mega-squid-giant-sturgeon/#comments Fri, 29 Apr 2011 17:09:11 +0000 derrick http://www.kayakquixotica.com/?p=7748 Now somehow (That I can’t even begin to explain!) this story weaves its way from Australia on to Charleston, South Carolina and through the mind of Moulton Avery, before landing on the blog of Helen Wilson before totally spinning out of control and landing here. Here at Quixotica, where I dare Moulton to bring his evil [...]]]> http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2011/04/29/mega-squid-giant-sturgeon/feed/ 3 http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2011/03/31/what-its-like/ http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2011/03/31/what-its-like/#comments Thu, 31 Mar 2011 16:11:36 +0000 derrick http://www.kayakquixotica.com/?p=7420 Sometimes love is all flowers and romance.. sometimes it’s well… You know.   Sea kayaking is like that…. Sometimes it’s all nature and beauty and all that sort of thing.  Sometimes though it’s … well, Sometimes you get out of your kayak, stand up, wipe the water out of your eyes.. spit, then go sit in [...]]]> http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2011/03/31/what-its-like/feed/ 7 http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2010/09/08/slough/ http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2010/09/08/slough/#comments Wed, 08 Sep 2010 11:08:17 +0000 derrick http://www.kayakquixotica.com/?p=6785 A slough can be a muddy marsh, a river delta, a swamp, a pond or a secondary stream, basically it’s water that does not fit into a more obvious category. Gallus Slough is located just a few miles south east of Devil’s Lake State park and about 10 minutes from my home.  The whole of [...]]]> http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2010/09/08/slough/feed/ 2