[Dominique]

Originally Posted by jelli

He gets LOTS of attention everywhere we go.

I see plenty of kayakers out with the dog. Two in particular, I see regularly. One, she goes out with both of her humans....has to sit in the cockpit because she is bad and likes to hop off and race them....they tell me that's no so terrible, but she is almost 90 pounds, and getting her back into the kayak~ floating on the river is dangerous....so she has to wait till swim time....and the other dog, TOTALLY spoiled. Has his own seat in a tandum kayak....the front seat of course....Shepard mix. He wears a pfd and eye goggles! I love it.
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Ok, summer is cruising by. Finally relief from the heat. I've had so many headaches this summer, heat related, it has to be. Last evening it was normal weather, 83, and I had a light jacket on. I was sort of chilly. I didn't believe it myself

I've been working horrendously long hours four days a week, so I can have the extra day off each week end....and I've been having so much fun......Went out with our rowing club last evening to dragon boat and I heard our teen age group
had an *incident*. Two speed boats going in opposite directions (I heard in a no wake zone) but I wasn't able to confirm that, created a wake and the wakes hit the kids simultaneously and it tipped over the dragon boat.

a) Dragon boats are big and heavy and tips and flips almost never happen.

b) Pittsburgh River Rescue was there with in minutes....and the Coast Guard is investigating.

20 teenagers on board, and two adults, plus they go out with a motorized lead boat. No one was injured. I'm proud to report, the teen agers did everything they have been taught to do and even had the dragon boat uprighted. River rescue and the coast guard brought them to the rowing club
despite the kids wanting to attempt to reboard the boat. as precaution, they were all checked out, and all fine.
Stresses the importance of practicing *emergency*

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Finally Kayak news. I was out for a row already this morning. An all womans row. I like these best. As we were getting into the kayaks and waiting on everyone to get settled, I saw a younger man (in his 20's I'd say) come walking down to the river, carrying a surf board looking thing and had a long handled paddel. He layed it at the edge of the river, got into the water, not quite knee deep, and climbed on TOP of this board, and stood up and rowed...or surfed...not sure what it was. I was preoccupied because he wasn't wearing a PFD and this river will swallow you....that makes me crazy, but wow, the muscles he had
~very pronounced from the rowing he was doing~ it looked like a sophisticated version of Mark Twain out there.
This isn't the beach, so we don't see the latest trends inland, on the rivers....so I came home and looked it up

www.imaginesurf.com

Now of course I want one. Maybe not one as sophisticated as these, (i/e not as expensive either) My partner just reminded me of this...her words, not mine. This is why you
never go on vacations, you're always buying these toys. I like to have fun.....what's so wrong about that?