A little night paddle
Lately, a variety of things (school, work, family, events) has forced us to do most of our paddling in the late afternoons and evenings. With the recent time change, that means it’s hard to get on the water before dark.…
read moreHeavy industrial paddle in the Hoosier state
The southern shore of Lake Michigan is a testament to what goes wrong when industry runs amok. Factories and refineries clog the shoreline and pollute the air and water. Several even reach right into the lake, creating artificial peninsulas of industrial byproducts bordered by steel break walls.…
read moreUmbrella Rides The Wind
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read moreHip Young Woman
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read moreYoung Man In The City
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read moreA good day to explore the Chicago shore
On a day with strong off-shore winds, the lake looks calm.Yesterday’s marine forecast went beyond “small craft advisory” to “gale warning,” meaning winds between 34 and 47 knots (or 39 to 54 miles per hour).…
read moreA good day to explore the shore
Yesterday’s marine forecast went beyond “small craft advisory” to “gale warning,” meaning winds between 34 and 47 knots (or 39 to 54 miles per hour). Those winds were coming straight out of the west, so the lake looked flat but we knew that paddling on it would be a challenge. …
read moreSharon paddles along the break wall, past a light marking the entrance to the Calumet channel.
There’s plenty of traffic on the Chicago coast during the summer months. We share the water with tour boats, yachts, motor boats, sail boats, fishing boats, coast guard vessels, jets skis and more.…
read moreSex and the single paddler
OK, the title of this post is a little misleading. We just wanted to see how it would affect our analytics. But this is a post about sex — the female sex — and the issue of all-women’s classes and symposia.…
read moreDeveloping some wisdom about the weather
A foggy morning at 63rd Street beach. The breakwall 100 feet to the right is invisible. (Photo by Lyn Stone.)This has been a season of extreme weather. We’ve had torrential downpours, heat waves, gale-force winds and thick fog–sometimes all in the course of 24 hours. …
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