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Red mystery object, which looks kinda like it might be a kayak, and has no description, for $800.
Is “great condition” the name of the weed it’s sitting in?
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Sometimes bad is bad
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Oh, that must be it. I mean that’s clearly what it’s “in”…
Looks like poison ivy. Caveat emptor.
LOL! Now that’s what I’m talking about! Great ad, true salesmanship on display, there. and only $800.
Willowleaf, I am pretty sure that’s not poison ivy, though. I am extra allergic to it and can pick it out of any weed line-up with laser-beam focus. In fact if I were a super-hero I’d be Poison Ivy Spotter… but this might be a wee bit off topic.
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Getting way off topic but I’m pretty sure it’s spotted touch-me-not (which, despite the name, is perfectly safe to touch, so don’t let that deter anyone from immediately following up on this amazing kayak deal.) I can see some of the orange flowers in back.
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Jewel weed
It’s a jewel alright… 
Sweet! Wonder if the seller would consider a cash offer of $795?
My crack was tongue-in-cheek snark (suggesting that was why the owner was loathe to pull it out to display it properly.)
I was never affected by poison ivy until about 3 years ago. Always was aware you could develop sensitivity and was careful to avoid it but not particularly worried over 60 plus years of outdoor recreation. Others in my family would get it badly so I used to volunteer to weed it out of the garden and yard for them and for friends with a strong allergy to it. So I do know what it looks like (and know that is not it in the shot.)
But I discovered late summer 2018 how nasty it is when I gloved up to pull a bunch of it off the ancient elm tree over at my rental property. I had long sleeves but neglected to put on long pants and must have dragged some of the vines across my shins because the next day they were slashed with fiery painful red welts which took over a month to heal over and then were scarred for another 2. Now I’m VERY careful to ID the stuff and really understand what people go through with it.
Between now being ivy-vulnerable and feeling beleaguered by the proliferation of deer ticks (and being allergic to their bites as well as paranoid about Lyme’s), having fun outdoors is not as much freewheeling fun as it used to be, at least off the water.
When I was a young kid I watched as a cool teenager rubbed poison ivy all over his face, bragging to a crowd of other kids about how he wasn’t allergic to it. Yeah, you can guess what happened and what he looked like a week later. Made a big impression on me at that tender age. Do not try to eff with Ma Nature.
A huge tree had blocked the river we were paddling . I had on a bathing suit and climbed over it thinking that big vine is suspicious.
I have had minor reactions but that one sent me to the Doc. My upper leg was a mess.
The neighborhood that I grew up in was at the base of one of Seattle’s major hills and a large park dominated most of the entire northeastern face of the hill. The park was wild, heavily wooded and one of its major ravines had the perfect tree for the perfect rope swing.
You swung out very high over the creek in a delicious gut-grabbing slow motion. The base of the ravine was choked with scrub alder, tall plants with enormous leaves, Blackberry and Poison Ivy.
One day our friend, Rusty, fell from the swing at the height of its arc resulting in a long fall broken by vegetation and mud. His arm was broken, face was scratched all to heck, he bruised all over and probably concussed. A lucky day for Rusty except for the exposure to the vegetation that eased his fall.
The blackberry thorns scratched him up as well as everyone who helped him out of the ravine. Worse was the exposure to Poison Ivy. I’m not sure what looked worse. The scratches and bruises on his face or the rash and dried calamine lotion that wore on his face, hands and arms for weeks following.
I’ve had a ton of poison ivy exposure but never a reaction, which is surprising since I’m highly allergic to the rest of the planet. I’ve got some poison ivy in the back corner of my yard that I’m reluctant to pull up so I tried killing it with vinegar. One of the vines died, the other one is still thriving.
Now poison oak is a whole other story. I had a single exposure in Utah when our climbing rope was laying in the stuff and the rope later touched my forearm. I had HUGE painful blisters and had to go on steroids.
I’ve known 2 people who have had it in their bloodstream. Both had to be hospitalized.
My sister has always been terribly reactive to poison ivy since childhood. Where we lived while she and I were in grade school was a couple of blocks from a bunch of commercial greenhouses. There was a lot of poison ivy climbing their chain link fence and the greenhouses themselves. The owners had it all pulled down and then piled it up and burned it with their other plant debris. The oils in the ivy linger in the smoke, which blew into our yard and landed my sis in the ER with her eyes and throat swollen shut. Dad stormed over to the greenhouse owners and read them the riot act after that.
People are listing kayaks like crazy now and for crazy high prices. This ‘kayak’ comes with a… toilet hole/seat!
*yes I know now that it’s a cooler hole. I think.
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I went to the website linked in that ad and I’m still not sure what it is. A SUP on top of a semi-kayak-like inflatable thing?
Here’s a “restored kayak.” I’m unclear on what kind of “restoration” went on (I guess the rectangular cockpit opening is somehow related to that) or what it originally was.
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