Posts Tagged ‘devils lake’

Long as I remember The rain been coming down.
Clouds of myst’ry pouring Confusion on the ground.
Good men through the ages, Trying to find the sun;
And I wonder, Still I wonder, Who’ll stop the rain. – ccr

After a successful day of rolling on Thursday, you wouldn’t be surprised if Mary wanted to get back out and lock in her roll the following morning.  Now, some could say that the weather didn’t cooperate but I’d say it did exactly what it should have done.  It upped the ante… Read the rest of this entry »

I was hungry and I’m hungry still
And now it’s pouring rain
I look o.k. but I’ve been feeling ill
And now it’s pouring rain
– bob geldof

Yesterday we had flash flood warnings in our area, but that didn’t stop us from getting out for a bit of a paddle!  Heavy rains and flooding are getting to be typical for early June in our part of Wisconsin.  It’s defiantly a climate change, but I’d be hard pressed to tell you why.  Whatever the reason it’s been flooding pretty regularly since the ’90s in our area.  The local lake has been so flooded that the state DNR finally incorporated a permanent drain!  Read the rest of this entry »

Here is a video of absolutely nothing; Rain, lots of bird calls, more rain.. a kayak… wind and thunder picked up by a cheap Pentax Optio mic.. But nothing else.  Just 42 seconds of a rainy Tuesday morning at Devil’s Lake State Park, 3 miles from home.

It won’t be long yeah, yeah, yeah
It won’t be long yeah, yeah, yeah
It won’t be long yeah
– the beatles

I woke up this morning to a distinct chill in the air and the Beatles singing in my head.  Winter’s on the way and it won’t be long now.  Today I’m going to meet JB for a bit of play time on, and in the water.  Better do it now, while we still have time.

Gardens and trash cans
Hoodie and Chuck-T’s
Arm,Fingers, and Hands
Don’t slow down
– Matt & Kim

Each of the last two days I’ve spent time out on the trails around the local park.  As much as I might want to deny it the coming death of summer is as clear as the sound of screeching brakes on a highway.  The more stressed of the forest trees are beginning to turn, the heat of the sun can’t quite chase the chill out of the mid-day air, the days of rain are beginning to outnumber the days of sun. My Ipod is filling with indie rock once again.  It’s that time of year.  Oh yeah, and P&H has some new kayaks on the way… I think I have another post about that.. Now let’s see here… what drawer did I put that post in!??

I read the news today oh, boy
Four thousand holes in blackburn, lancashire
And though the holes were rather small
They had to count them all
– beatles

Beatles Trivia will tell you that the line from, “A Day in the life” quoted above was based on a 1967 article in the Daily Mail about potholes in the roads.  Geologically potholes are holes worn into the rocks when pebbles or cobbles become drill bits in hard swirling currents often found at the bottom of eddies and in plunge pools at the bottom of water falls.  The potholes pictured above are at the top of a 400 foot, stone, stair climb at Devil’s Lake State Park and were created over 10,000 years ago when the glaciers of the last great ice age stopped and melted right on this spot.  These formations are a beautiful sight to see for those up to the climb.   Oh man, now I got off track… I think I was going to say something about Facebook…

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She says, Im getting that lonely sinking feeling,
You know what I mean?
With his hand on her back hes thinking,
where does that leave me?
– cowboy junkies

The 2007 Colman Fun 94 kayak is 9’4” feet long, has a capacity of 250lbs.  If it flips, the poor bastard paddling it may be in real trouble. It would be hard to design a recreational kayak that could hold more water while at the same time be almost impossible to drain as the “fun 94”.  In fact, in my opinion the Fun 94 represents just about everything bad in recreational kayaks.  The only thing you could do to make them worse is rent them out to holiday makers who are taking enough risk simply by being in on the water at all.

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