FIRST DAY OF KAYAKING 2007

MARCH 26th 2007
What an amazing first day of kayaking at Point Pelee!! The weather was outstanding especially for March. This is the earliest I have had the boats out and it was a balmy 85°F at East Beach in the lee of the beach line, however at the park gates on the West Beach there was still literally tons of shoreline ice and it was COLD! There was a STRONG southwest wind that really brought the temp down on the west side but east in the lee was down right tropical.

Another first was the Beaver! Take a look at this photo. I thought someone had taken a hatchet to the tree but looking closer it probably had to be a Beaver, otherwise someone had a really sharp chisel and some free time. Also notice there aren't too many shavings at the base either.

I also saw two small Racoons on a recon mission through the Catails probably looking for eggs no doubt.


LINK TO POINT PELEE WEBSITE

B-17 FLIGHT 2001

If you're going to be touring the Detroit River by air you might as well be in a B-17G Flying Fortress! Ever since I was a little kid I have been fascinated by WWII military aircraft and the B-17 was always one of my favorites. Of course I had a huge Revell scale model of the 17 hanging in my room, long since "downed" by firecrackers, but I never imagined that I would actually get to fly in one!


Yankee Air Museum FLIGHT EXPERIENCE

Good-Bye Analog Airwaves

Good-Bye familiar "Snow" and Hello "Artifacts"!!
Ahhh well I already have artifacts on my analogs from Comcast!!






Full Article at Wired Gadgets

Last Day of Kayaking

Nov. 29/2006

Remote Flying with VR Goggles and a Camera

Link to Video

First Day of Kayking April 11th 2006

Not as early as last year (April 06 2005) but it was an incredible day. Launched from the Point Pelee Board Walk marsh and kayaked to the point, then back to the marsh again. Not bad for the first paddle of the year - 11 miles.

I am soooo glad I got the new boots and Neoprene gloves this year! It was a South East wind coming off that cold water and man it did not feel like 70 degrees! I made pretty good time down to the point only stopping twice. But at the point the wind really picked up. I had a choice - take the short calm warm west beach route or take the long cool windy wavy east beach back ... So I took east beach baby! It was a wild ride back man! There were two different sets of waves - one set angled into the beach at 45 degrees and the other set pushed straight in parallel to the beach. The sets came in in threes - so I'd ride three of the parallel waves 45 degrees away from the beach then turn and catch the 45 degree waves back towards the beach. They were awesome waves too - quite big but not yet breaking. They kept getting bigger all the way back too!
Usually the wind lets up the further the sun goes down but not yesterday! I'm glad I chose to paddle the whole way back to the portage beach at the marsh cause if I landed I might not have been able to launch again! I had at least 4 gallons of water in the cockpit by the time I got back to the marsh beach! Thats like 33 pounds of water man! The water in my boat was so cold too that I had to put my gloves on before I could finish sponging it all out! I would NOT want to dump it in the lake in the near future! Especially more than 20 yards offshore!! Its wetsuit weather BIG TIME!

Saturday is looking good for round two at the Point!
Link to Point Pelee National Park