Sunset and night Glow Paddle at Marina Bay, Singapore.
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Seems like the site is having issues again. Can’t upload photos and I was shut out of the forums for 3 days with an error code this week.
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That’s not a pretty picture, both literally and figuratively! lol
I was also shut out. It seems the new owners give this site a low priority.
Just imagine the beauty.
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Must say, the image reminds me of my usual canoe trip daily ritual of self-torture:
All me life,
I’ve sought some releases,
from my fumblin’ searchin’,
of me constituent pieces.
Some sez tis better to have it,
and not need it at all,
but when y’re havin’ too much,
oft reduced to a crawl,
through y’re scattered out goods,
y’re scattered brain reelin’ bad,
in search newest need 'n want,
ya were sure that ya had,
till then prone with exhaustion,
and a throbbin’ mind numb,
ya lay sobbin’ and bray’n,
an over-pack-muled in dumb.
And now fifty year in,
ya’d think I’d honed me technique.
Alas, I’m still this dumb ass,
cry’n my constituent piece hide-n-seek.
Gotta ask, on 75-degree Fahrenheit and above days, when humidity levels rise above 60 percent, does a single-walled Black Diamond get to be a bit, saunaesque?
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you aint’ kidding
that was on a trip up the east coast of Aus in '09. (HOT, not so much humidity)
to make it worse, I would typically start around 2am (avoid wind), meaning I had to go to sleep while the sun was still blazing down, lots of sweat.
btw, where does all the diverse talent in this ‘off the wall’ (canoe/kayak) forum come from
- how do your ‘words’ come together - the brain must format them somehow
- amazed at the talent and skill that made all of those Greenland paddles (@roym)
- so many more (builders, designers, artists, etc)
don’t ask me mine, there isn’t one, though I do like to paddle
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Seems to be ok now.
Took a little trip to Montana for a Flat Coat Retriever competition. Just thought a week at East Glacier Natl.Park would be proper…then it snowed.
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Me thinks it takes a slightly off kilter mind to be creative! 
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Mine were on the original (we’re direct descendants of Governor Bradford).
And I got to ride in this replica as a kid. I was 12 when my dad took me to see it in 1962, 5 years after it was built in the UK and sailed to Boston. As it so happened, they apparently take it a little ways out of the dock and turn it around and sail back every once in a while and this was one of those maintenance days so they were not doing tours. I think it’s to knock stuff off the hull and to reposition it, kinda like flipping your mattress once a year. But, I must have done my best disappointed kid face because the crew actually let us come aboard and take the ride out and back! . They probably don’t take tourists out on it any more due to the litigious nature of the public concerning anything risky. But it was certainly a cool thing to be able to do.
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Pretty cool. The USS Constitution does an annual sail out to the mouth of the inner Boston Harbor. Cost a pretty penny to get on a commercial sail boat to accompany the Constitution out and watch her fire a 21 gun salute. Fortunately, can be seen from Castle Island in South Boston, or in a kayak (watch out for boat traffic!!!), not too far out in the shipping channel.
-sing
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Lol, we use those fans as well. They’re perfect for our full-time off-grid rigs. They’ve also been the only fan that I’ve been somewhat impressed w/ other than my expensive Caframo.
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Cool reservoir outflow water reacting to the humid morning air.
Gunpowder Gal is steamy,
all foggy with the thrill,
hot summer morn’s come rollin’,
and through gate comes her Prettboy chill.
This Tiger Lily prowls the bank,
quarry downriver to know,
thermacline gang’s bustin’ outta rank,
green screen cashes in on flow.
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