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"The History Of Sea Kayaking" "Picture this: The year is 1972. You’re a swingin’ flower child, and you want to go kayaking with your sweetheart, feel the groove and sway of the ocean and get in touch with Mama Earth. It’s not much different than today—except you have to go build your own boat. A look back through the history of sea kayaking shows how the sport transformed from a tiny niche activity in 1972 to one of wide and enduring popularity today..." Complete story: Paddling Magazine "Generator Failure Causes Wastewater Spill" (San Marcos, Texas) "Approximately 1 million gallons of wastewater overflowed into the San Marcos River early Thursday morning following a generator failure, the City of San Marcos announced Friday. The city said the generator failure occurred at its main wastewater lift station — located near River Road and the Interstate 35 frontage road..." Complete story: San Marcos Record "Strange laws of the U.S." (Michigan) "The obscure law about cursing drew national attention when a Detroit-area man was charged with the crime while on a canoeing trip. The man better known as the “cussing canoeist,” shouted “f-bombs” upwards of more than 75 times within earshot of a 5-year-old boy and a 2-year-old girl after falling out of a canoe. The man was found guilty..." Complete story: Chron.com "'Dining by drone' on the Connecticut River" (Connecticut) "A plan submitted to city officials could make it possible to order a meal and have it delivered by drone, without ever having to dock your craft. The proposed mixed-used development at the Mattabesett Canoe Club..." Complete story: Chron.com "Sand buries river, residents suspect I-4 construction" (Florida) "Just where it begins to blossom as a treasured wilderness waterway, the Little Wekiva River is being obliterated by invading dirt. The onslaught for at least a couple of years has clogged the Little Wekiva’s channel near the residence of the former owner of Katie’s Landing canoe outpost, who had used her waterfront home to launch thousands of paddlers..." Complete story: Chron.com "Officials struggle to plan an Olympic torch relay" (Japan) "The current plan calls for about 10,000 runners to relay the torch. Some torchbearers will do something other than running, such as carrying the torch while riding a horse or swimming in a traditional Japanese style, in an effort to highlight cultures associated with each region. In Shiso, Hyogo Prefecture, canoes will carry the torch across a lake..." Complete story: (web-link) "Cold-stunned sea turtles rescued by Navy pilots" (Texas) "Bellamy, an Army and Marine Corps veteran who served in Iraq and Haiti, spotted some turtles Tuesday with his son Jerome. But he needed help. He alerted Capt. Christopher Jason, the commander of Naval Air Station Corpus Christi in southeastern Texas, and his wife, Cheryl Jason. The commander grabbed his kayak, paddled into the cold waves and retrieved a lapful of cold-shocked turtles..." Complete story: Chron.com "One man's quest to remove trash from the Susquehanna River" (Pennsylvania) "The plastic comes down one of the world’s oldest major river systems in alarming volumes and relentless waves after each high-water event. But that doesn’t discourage the 57-year-old Naylor, who for the last four years has filled his canoe once or twice a week with plastics retrieved from the shallows, banks and shores..." Complete story: Lancaster Online "Why Paddler Bill Mason’s Legacy Will Never Die" "I suspect I’m not alone when I say more important than technical prowess or pedagogical brilliance, when it comes to learning how to canoe I cherish my memory of Bill Mason’s reverence for the natural world. I love his simple joy of building a relationship to the world with a canoe. Bill didn’t really care whether you did this stroke or that stroke in this or that circumstance. Going into nature was the most important thing. How you got there in your canoe was incidental..." Complete story:Paddling Magazine
"Picture this: The year is 1972. You’re a swingin’ flower child, and you want to go kayaking with your sweetheart, feel the groove and sway of the ocean and get in touch with Mama Earth. It’s not much different than today—except you have to go build your own boat. A look back through the history of sea kayaking shows how the sport transformed from a tiny niche activity in 1972 to one of wide and enduring popularity today..."
"Approximately 1 million gallons of wastewater overflowed into the San Marcos River early Thursday morning following a generator failure, the City of San Marcos announced Friday. The city said the generator failure occurred at its main wastewater lift station — located near River Road and the Interstate 35 frontage road..."
"The obscure law about cursing drew national attention when a Detroit-area man was charged with the crime while on a canoeing trip. The man better known as the “cussing canoeist,” shouted “f-bombs” upwards of more than 75 times within earshot of a 5-year-old boy and a 2-year-old girl after falling out of a canoe. The man was found guilty..."
"A plan submitted to city officials could make it possible to order a meal and have it delivered by drone, without ever having to dock your craft. The proposed mixed-used development at the Mattabesett Canoe Club..."
"Just where it begins to blossom as a treasured wilderness waterway, the Little Wekiva River is being obliterated by invading dirt. The onslaught for at least a couple of years has clogged the Little Wekiva’s channel near the residence of the former owner of Katie’s Landing canoe outpost, who had used her waterfront home to launch thousands of paddlers..."
"The current plan calls for about 10,000 runners to relay the torch. Some torchbearers will do something other than running, such as carrying the torch while riding a horse or swimming in a traditional Japanese style, in an effort to highlight cultures associated with each region. In Shiso, Hyogo Prefecture, canoes will carry the torch across a lake..."
"Bellamy, an Army and Marine Corps veteran who served in Iraq and Haiti, spotted some turtles Tuesday with his son Jerome. But he needed help. He alerted Capt. Christopher Jason, the commander of Naval Air Station Corpus Christi in southeastern Texas, and his wife, Cheryl Jason. The commander grabbed his kayak, paddled into the cold waves and retrieved a lapful of cold-shocked turtles..."
"The plastic comes down one of the world’s oldest major river systems in alarming volumes and relentless waves after each high-water event. But that doesn’t discourage the 57-year-old Naylor, who for the last four years has filled his canoe once or twice a week with plastics retrieved from the shallows, banks and shores..."
"I suspect I’m not alone when I say more important than technical prowess or pedagogical brilliance, when it comes to learning how to canoe I cherish my memory of Bill Mason’s reverence for the natural world. I love his simple joy of building a relationship to the world with a canoe. Bill didn’t really care whether you did this stroke or that stroke in this or that circumstance. Going into nature was the most important thing. How you got there in your canoe was incidental..."