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

To: Crocodile who wrote (183)	8/15/1999 9:18:00 PM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 325

The Clyde sounds like good fun; I like the thought of stillness and loons. We see herons, bitterns, and kingfishers a lot, and hawks, but nothing like loons or ducks. They are around, as are egrets; we see them in ricefields and marshes, but almost never on the rivers. I wonder why that is. You mentioned paddling upriver, which we never do; how fast is the current moving? Could be a decent workout, though from the type of vegetation you described the current is probably pretty slow. How much trouble do you have with wind on the open lakes? I recall wind being a major factor with the old Grumman aluminum canoes; the newer boats probably take it a little better. I'd like to see those aboriginal paintings; the original inhabitants here are still around, in little pockets, but they didn't leave much behind. Paddled a little myself this weekend, on the rivers near home. A new one on Saturday, a good novice river when the levels are high. A few fun rapids in the upper part, mostly just meandering pools with occasional bits of easy white water between. Went back to my favorite local river Sunday, found access to the upper portion blocked by a landslide, and the guy I with wasn't up to carrying his boat upstream (I would have), so we did an abbreviated run. A little difficult at first, as I've been paddling a lot of forgiving water lately. This river is very rocky and very fast, paddling it is a bit like I imagine slalom skiing would be. Once I got the attention level up to speed, though, it was a lot of fun, and as always I came off it feeling like I'd learned something. Made me wonder a bit why I go waltzing all over Luzon looking for new places to paddle when I have such good water so close by, though I already know, really. Next weekend may be devoted to the first descent of the river I mentioned last time, if we can find the upper put-in. Could be interesting....