Guilt post

I'm making this post as remorse for not keeping up this blog. I'm frantically running around packing my boat and gear this AM preparing for a run on te lower Haw at 4.5', simply to help out a newbie I've befriended. Have to cultivate this relationship because he can paddle weekdays!

Life has been a blur of activity. I've had (2) 8-hour kayaking courses in the last week and have another 6-hour course tomorrow. Had to rewire a loaner trailer to pull all that off. I've been asked to commit to leading a Neuse River tour for some decent $$$/Hr and won't be able to pass that up. I need to finish a writeup of a conference call for the ACA recreation committee and then sneak in a grocery shopping trip too.

No time.... Gotta go. TTFN.

April Showers

March ended and April started off with a bang. Though we'd originally planned to take a week off to go paddle the Suwannee in Florida, lack of ny takers for that trip altered our plans to two and a half days on the Edisto River in SC. Nan and I took off for two nights on the river for about 36 miles. It was a pretty, although unexpectedly rather developed sectiono of the river with only the rare section of 2 or more bends without some form of house. A rainy spell set in that weekend and we had light showers to mist for most of the trip.

Returining to the triangle, it was nice to see that the rain fairies had visited here too, giving us 2 days in the next week on the Haw: one of which bringing 18 CCC-ers oout for a post-work paddle. Kayaking is alive and well.

This past weekend found us on Harker's Island for a weekend trip out to Shackleford Banks. Horrendous rain and thunderstorms almost stopped our passage for the 3-mile trek across Core Sound, but we poersisted for some nice scenery for a couple of hours before the rain, wind and lightning started up again and lasted all Saturday night. We topped the weekend (and the last day of Nancy's vacation) off with a stop at El's in Morehead City for a large shrimpburger. What a treat!

Back to work now. Finished our txes today and now have to start in preparing for this weekend's Falls Lake Festival (Lake's now full and started 470 cfs discharge TODAY after months at 25-30 cfs) as well as a kayak class on Sunday, an ACA conference call Sat. night, and another class the following Sun.