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FOG (Part 2)
Oct 27 2008, 10:52 PM EDT
… when we came upon a floating barge that looked like some kind of fish processing platform. Bob felt like we were in the movie Waterworld. Eventually we made it to the dock at Baywood, and that really surprised me because I had never been to Baywood before by water. I didn’t know it was possible. We turned around and followed the coast back to the Coast Guard station, except there was a small problem, I could hear a motorcycle going by us through the fog. Uh oh, I said, “Hey we are way off course, we need to be in the main channel or near the sand spit, we should be hearing the ocean not motorcycles!” We headed for the main channel, uh, oh oh, we just ran out of navigable water and were locked in on three sides. We turned back and so did our tide, it was starting to run out. There was only an inch of water under the bottom of my hull. I was starting to bump into stuff protruding from the bottom of the bay. I started remembering stories of sailors sailing in circles through fog. I also read about people getting stuck on the sand spit for hours and hours and sinking into mud up to their thighs. I scanned the bottom and realized walking out would be horrible if not impossible. Things were beginning to look very bleak. I shouldn’t have paddled into the fog, I don’t know what I was thinking. I don’t have any experience, I had no map, no compass, and I had no idea what the back bay looked like because I had never been that far back! Bob asked if our wives would eventually call search and rescue. I said, “And what? They’ll be looking from Morro Rock to Cayucos and the search will be in thick fog. All the while we will be in Los Osos, sitting in our kayaks in mud up to the gunnels!” (end of part 2)
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1. RE: FOG (Part 2)
Oct 28 2008, 10:35 AM EDT
Don't keep us in suspense, here, Tim! What happened? Are your kayaks still out there? Didja' guys swim back? ;-) What's "the rest of the story"?
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