Spidey

: Nice to meet you on this forum! Thanks for the compliments, my primary source
: of info was always this BBS, great participation by lots of great folk . .

Well, take a bow. You're the reason for my happy back...my rear died daily but the back was fine. In fact, I will take the time for the entire group to thank you for the great ideas that allowed me to paddle 1893 miles around the entire shoreline of Lake Powell and upstream some distance on the San Juan and Colorado Rivers. I bet you had no idea that someone looked at everything your wrote in the archives and put it into practice.

: My kayak physical problems probably go back to my youth, when it was
: fashionable to get muscle bound - Never was able to sit flat on a floor,
: the legs and back didn't like that position . . . ;-) I could keep up with
: car traffic on a bicycle, but can't sit in a darned kayak very well . . .

There's got to be a way, there always is.

First leg: down south
1. Gauadloupe Island (the WS are mean in these parts)
2. Islas Revillagigedo (WS)
3. Clipperton Island (WS)
4. Islas Galapagos
5. inshore to Peru to Chile and Porto Montt and spend some time with Jaynee and do some paddling, and troll the shape for whites.