December 23, 2011
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Some one needs to buy John’s Cetus LV, but they may not know it, yet. http://gokayaknow.com/index.php/kayak-reviews/nigel-foster-silhouette-used-for-sale/used-ph-cetus-lv-sea-kayak/ This is a versatile boat that would give years of enjoyment to the paddler on your Christmas list!! (and a tear to my eye, for … Continue reading
September 17, 2010
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Sturgeon Bay – Gray’s Reef light – White Shoal light – Waugoschance light – Temperance Island 8/26/10 posted by John Fleming The Endbridge Oil Kalamazoo River disaster put an abrupt end to my usual midweek upstream-paddling workout. If I could … Continue reading
August 11, 2010
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It’s 8am on Cannery Beach, Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. It’s me, a chain smoking heavy equipment operator, and nobody else. He says that no overweight tourists will be at the beach until about 11, and he wants to lift the cannery up off the ground before they get there. By the end of the day, my body and physics degree will both agree that the crane and I have each expended about the same amount of total energy. To which my liberal arts education replies, “but I have been across the sea.” Continue reading
April 16, 2010
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posted by John Fleming Last week I took a kayak trip, I mean family vacation, to Tybee Island, Georgia. Tybee is home to the infamous Triangle and monstrous sharks, but will soon be better known as the location of the … Continue reading
October 20, 2009
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At the end of August I wrote my first post, about paddling to Ile Aux Galet (Skillagalee) island, which started out intimidating but turned into a ton of fun, surfing back to the mainland. Besides about 10,000 birds, the only … Continue reading
September 30, 2009
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My first day in the surf boat was early last April, on a much ‘smaller’ day. Everything was in the 30’s: air temp, water temp, wind speed. It was gnarly and the boat didn’t fit at all. But even with … Continue reading
August 31, 2009
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Ile Aux Galets (Island of Pebbles), aka Skillagalee, is a very small island about 7 miles offshore from Cross Village, near the NW tip of Michigan’s lower peninsula. The island sits atop a large shoal. On the east it is … Continue reading