Solo Kayak II

De: James Nugent

Narrado por: Barbara Colvin

August 2014: I set my trusty 14-foot kayak in my lagoon. It was a rising tide heading south, and I had several hours before it reversed and dumped some 13 or more feet of water out of the inlet. Eld Inlet is approximately six nautical miles long. The southern two miles can be navigated only at high tide. It turns into a mud flat and a shellfish farm at low tide. At high tide it is a pristine waterway of immense beauty.

I left my lagoon just as the fog was lifting. It gave me a mile of visibility and would continue to lift just as it did every day in the last half of August. I have never known the phenomenon of fog to be different in the last 25 years. Sometime at the end of August, it will just be cloudy all day. There will be sunny days in September and October, but the sun will never go so high in the sky or be as warm. The days will rapidly be darker and shorter until late December.

Be that as it may, today was one of those luscious days of paddling and reflecting on the joys of summer.

©2014 James Nugent (P)2015 James Nugent

Ramblings

I hate to overrate a book, but by giving this one two stars I may have done just that. In my estimation, this book consists of the rambling thoughts of the author while taking an uninteresting and short kayaking trip. There seems to be no purpose beyond recording his stream of consciousness thought. Disappointing.