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Pastimes : Canoes, Hiking, the Great Outdoors -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Crocodile who wrote (137)	6/7/1999 9:22:00 PM
From: Dayuhan	Respond to of 325

Last year was the driest rainy season of the century, so I deserve a little water. The seasons here are obviously different - we usually get monsoon rains (steady, long, not much wind) starting in late May or early June. These run until August. Sometime in July the first typhoons come in, and in July and August we have both the monsoon and the typhoons, which can get pretty wet. The monsoon fades out in September, but occasional storms come through until late November to early December; the weather in between is usually good, the storms keep the water levels high, making this premium whitewater time, though the hardcore among us don't mind paddling in the rain. The rain stops completely in December, and it is dry through May. Different rivers react differently to the dry season. The ones we have nearby are pretty small, with limited catchment, and are too low to paddle by the end of December. Bigger ones last a little longer. There are different patterns in the eastern and southern parts of the country, and you can paddle somewhere practically any time, but a lot of those rivers take a long time to get to; I usually break out the sea kayak when the dry season comes around. Not quite the same, though we get decent surf through February, which is good for a bit of a rush. March, April, and May are really pretty dead, except for flat-water sea paddling. But there is always somewhere to paddle, and it is always warm, at least relative to the US or Canada.