Greetings lost souls,

Come on, if your reading this you’re lost. .

It’s 5:30 in the morning and my day is going to be pretty busy, but I did have some updates I wanted to tell you about.

First I have some new links to other Sea Kayaking Blogs out there. I HATE the word blog, so can we please say “journals” instead?

To my list of Favorite kayak related books I have added Chris Duff’s book, “On Celtic Tides”. No one needs me to tell them about Chris Duff, but I finally was able to sit down and read this book and felt it really needed to go in the “Must Have” list. In the end the draw for me was the common ground or ‘water’ that any kayaker can find in his love of the elements and the connection to life that sea kayaking can only enhance. There is a short story of how he had to swim out into the frigid water to rescue a small boy who had drifted out to sea in HIS boat. Yikes! I had to just put the book down and get my emotions back in order before I could continue.

This summer looks to be a busy one. I am filling my weekends with kayaking events as much as possible this year with a goal to get the “public” experience I need to become a better instructor and paddler for that matter. I hope to be assisting in some shape or form at both the Inland Sea Kayak Symposium and the Door County Symposium. AND if humanly possible the West Michigan symposium as well. It also looks like my wife and I will be working at Canoecopia next month in Madison, WI. To add to that I plan on working on my first BCU assessment as well as instructing wherever ever else they will have me.

I think that’s about it for updates. The suggestion is that I will actually get my boat back today and I may get out to paddle lake Michigan on Saturday. Yippee!