Same River, Different Landing
Published September 20, 2009 | 
Kayaker With Ferry Bluff in the Background
I had arrived quite early, so I waited. I unloaded my kayak beside the water and chatted with a couple from the Kenosha are who had chosen this unlikely boat landing for a spot of early morning fishing. The weren’t catching anything. As I carried more gear down to the boat, I checked my watch. It was already five minutes to 9 and still no one had shown up. Not surprising really, people tended to race in at the last second for these trips. Out of habit I glanced at my phone. There was 1 message.
Love is like a Rock
Published September 18, 2009 | 
You can’t depend on your teacher
You can’t depend on your preacher
You can’t depend on politicians
You can’t depend on superstitions
– donnie iris
So tomorrow I hop back in my kayak to paddle the Upper Dells of the Wisconsin River along with a group from Rutabaga. Well, that is if the new Jeep starts. It seems to be having one of those battery/alternator/starter issues that simply leave you confused and going nowhere fast. Story of my life! Right now it’s at the mechanics. She’ll hook up the computer and like roulette wheel on a Mississippi River Boat Casino, it will tell me which of the 3 options I’ve selected to experience. It can’t be the battery as I’ve already made that purchase. However if my little wheel of misfortune does happen to land on “Battery”, it will be met with a long list of expletives loosely translated as, “Spin Again!”…
Posted in Enviroment, Events & Symposia, Paddling, travel, Web Stuff | 
great lakes, wisconsin, wisconsin dells, wisconsin riverthe inside
Published September 16, 2009 | 
Looking out over Prairie du Chien, The Wisconsin, The Mississippi & Iowa in the distance from the bluffs of Wyalusing State Park.
Sea kayakers know that Wisconsin has miles and miles of coastline boarding two inland seas, Lake Superior to the north and Lake Michigan to the east. The state’s western border is cut by the famous workhorse, the Mississippi river which flows from Lake Itasca in Minnesota, south to the Gulf of Mexico. The Wisconsin River flows diagonally across the state some 430 miles to join the Mississippi near a small town built in the Mississippi flood plain called Prairie Du Chien. (The Prairie of “Dog” but that’s another story).
Posted in Paddling, travel | mississippi river, prairie du chien, wisconsin, wisconsin dells, wisconsin riverUpper Wisconsin Dells
Published April 19, 2009 | 
The trick to paddling the in the Wisconsin Dells is to choose the spring or fall when the water is not filled with tour boats, jet boats, and blind drunk tourists. If you can avoid the seasonal madness you’re in for something special. Tomorrow I’ll tell you more about the Riverfest event we attended on Saturday, for now though let me share a gallery of paddling photos from the upper Dells section of the Wisconsin River. I’ve also added a Google Map of this section of the Wisconsin River.
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