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Sunday March 17, 2024 |
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was at 9:15 am so we wasted no time mobilizing the fleet--canoe for sarah and jesse, L'il Dinky for matt and me. the canoe is much faster so off they paddled into the distance, lower left, only a third of the way across though they look much closer to the opposite shore--the promised land of Hoodsport. meanwhile, dinghy no longer leaked after yesterday's patchwork of flex seal spray topped with bondo. matt and i exceeded its weight limit but stayed afloat, though without a small outboard motor in back its trim was off and, sitting low in the water, handled like a shoebox, so we didn't stray too far from land but it was good enough and it makes a fine swim platform, easy in and out, water a bracing 49F but just fine in a wetsuit on this summer tease weekend where the sun felt much warmer than the 60F air temperature. it's all very pretty on the surface, but the canal is hypoxic, shoreline overdeveloped, hillside scarred by clearcuts, and insufficient snowpack portends summer drought. even so, a nice day. |
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