Flumoxed wrote:My only trip thru the San Juans almost ended in disaster. We met friends who lived on Vashon Island and he had two canoes ... hey let's go canoeing says he (I think it was November). OK says I ... he and I in one canoe, spouses in another. We were doing laps around the ladies and having a ball. Well, then the wind picks up and we find ourselves being blown southwest and far from Vashon Is. no matter how hard we stroked. I finally said screw this and fell out of the canoe and swam over to the wives' canoe (they were losing the battle worse than we were). I grabbed the front of the canoe and started stroking ... only helped a little until I happened to put a foot down and realized we were over a sandbar and it was only about five foot deep. I yelled to the other guy and he came alongside. We both pulled the canoes back to Vashon. Three hours by the fire and plenty o' toddies put us right again! :wink:
You know I should scold you for doing that. Do you realize the water temp is
probably only around 50 or so degrees. Do you know what happens if you stay in that water life vest or not? What the do in the schools to teach the kids is have them put their hand in a glass of ice water for about 5-10 minutes, then they have them take their hand out and tell them to try and move it. You only have an average of 20 minutes to live in the water in Puget Sound life vest or not (your are okay if you have diving gear on)
Also you are lucky one of the tugs or freighters didn't come through at that point. How old are you? I feel like I am scolding you. Don't do it again and don't try to raft the rivers here either. That is an order.
