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If this will ease your snake anxiety a paddling friend of mine who is a zoo herpetologist told me that only poisonous snakes float. A snake you see in the water that has its entire body on top of the water is poisonous; if all you see is its head and neck it is a harmless water snake.

We paddled in February so reptiles were dormant. I’m sure there are snakes about during milder temps but the odds of encountering one is probably slim.

One of the many Black Creek sand bars we encountered. Most of this paddling is in remote forested country.

In SE Mississippi Black Creek and Red Creek have quite a few miles of scenic paddling. Located in Desoto National Forest overnight trips are possible and at normal levels numerous large sandbars offer pull over camp sites. Brooklyn, MS is the center for all this. Hattiesburg is the closet...

Hopefully these helped make the recipients better playing partners.

Once a felon, always a felon. God forbid you get another one

I’m moved to agree with you. If a higher price doesn’t move it, you could rethink things

My instincts would be in then $800-900 range. You have a sellers market, your unique outfitting, the sail. If you kept the original seats you could include them in should the new owner want to restore it to a tandem.

A whistle is a good example for "if you don't have it on you, you don't have it." Many, many years ago I attached a loud whistle to my pfd as a permanent feature. It is not needed very often, but when it is, there is no effective substitute. If you recall that day after we recovered our friends...

Starting the New Year off in good fashion by getting out the first 3 days. Studying radar each day we were able to find breaks in the rain. We are headed up river to enter the 7 Creeks swamp.

This was an interesting read of a multiday down river camping trip on the Brazos. https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B0049P1LXW/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_d_asin_title_o02?ie=UTF8&psc=1&fpw=alm

I've been quite pleased with the stainless adjustable webbing slider. Slightly lighter than 2 Drings, it performs admirably. Very easy to tighten, very easy to disengage, holds firmly when carrying. My demands on this piece of hardware have been light. The canoe is 42 pounds and perhaps my...

Hoback River, Montana...............Photo by Bob Kimmel Thomas George McCloud Frederick Maryland - On Saturday October 3, 2020 , Thomas G. McCloud passed away suddenly at the age of 76. Tom will be fondly remembered by family...

In remembrance of Tom McCloud, photos by Bob Kimmel. With my many absences from home to paddle whitewater, domestic tranquility concerns kept me from joining Tom on his annual Easter weekend gathering of paddlers on the Upper Potomac. While I missed paddling the Smoke Hole with Tom, much...

............................I’d much rather have that debris scraped off before I climb into the tent. But especially sand. Sand in the tent is insidious. Sand inevitably gets inside the sleepy bag. Sleep gritty my friend.".................... The last 15 years or so a lot of my camping has...

The spare Norse I gave you was the light weight version of what I was using. The Norse I used that day had a larger diameter shaft and a larger blade face. You could really lay out on a brace/ draw if you needed to. With the aluminum tip you could sit/ pole in the shallows. But it is a...

The evolution of this thread has me feeling better about my shop mishaps. So far I haven't had any blood involved in my mistakes. That may be due to my preference to limit the use of power tools, but there are times when that is what you need use. When power tools are added to the project I...

Mike McCea has advanced beyond what is depicted in their video. What they are displaying is almost exactly how this all started. I happened to have the great good fortune to bear witness to Mr. McCrea's first field trial of the V-1 Fire-in-a-Can at a State Park barrier island that prohibited...

That does poetically capture the elegant simplicity, yet completeness, of a paper map. Many a spring trekking adventure would initially take place the previous winter, the map spread out on the dining room table while cold, snow, and ice would be outside the dining room window.

Ed's canoe heavy duty seat is quite stout. I'm a big guy as well, 6'1", 240 so I've opted for heavy duty when I replace my seats. Been very pleased with Ed's heavy duty seat.