1st Falmouth Paddle of 2008

This morning Allison and I got up early and headed over tot he Falmouth Heights Beach. We loaded the boats onto Dad's truck and took them over to the beach. We set off and headed towards Falmouth Harbor. We paddled along the Falmouth Heights beach, out past the swim markers and down to the harbor.

Along the way we watched cormorants skim the waves, a large jellyfish laze about and fishermen trying their luck on the jetties.

Once in the Falmouth Harbor we paddled in and among the boats of various sizes. It was pretty early so there weren't many people out and about. However there was this one seagull that was claiming a boat as its own.

After a while in the Harbor we turned about and headed for home.

When we got back to the start of Heights Beach we saw Dad pulling his truck out of the street next to ours, he drove down to the end of the beach and parked. We paddled up to shore and got out. It was a nice leisurely paddle for the day.

1st Paddle of 2008

I know it is so late in coming and I have not been updating this blog lately but I haven't been on the water and haven't been motivated to talk about kayaking because I miss it.

Well, last night I went for a paddle with my friend Meghan. She had three kayaks, two one person ones and one two person one. We opted for the two person boat. I wish I had my waterproof camera with me because I would have been much less paranoid about getting my camera wet but we managed. I even got a great Photo-A-Day Shot. Here are some of the other shots.

Meghan took quite a few photos backwards, I wonder how they came out. I should have grabbed copies.

I loved the clouds on the water on this one and the sun flare.

Intentional use of fill flash so that I could get even lighting.

Wired Kayaker is hiding in Plain Sight

Looking at the new TV show, In Plain Sight it premieres on USA Network this Sunday June 1 at 10:00pm, don't miss it, I got to thinking about where I would like to live if I was in the Witness Protection Program. At first I thought that hey, I'm the Wired Kayaker I'd head to someplace warm so I could kayak all year round. I thought about Miami and Key West but those places are nuts and I just couldn't live there full time at all.

I've had the opportunity to travel all over the country and see many places. There are very few that I would ever consider moving to. But if I had to move to a particular city in the US I would most likely move to Ashland Oregon.



Not only is downtown Ashland like Small Town USA it is also home to an amazing variety of restaurants. I'd be close to tons of recreation areas like Crater Lake and I am sure I'd get a ton of kayaking done in that area. Ashland is also one of the places that I've always wanted to go back to for a vacation so I could go on a motorcycle trip with my Dad.

If I had to move there for the Witness Protection Program I'd probably have to change a bunch of things about my life so I'd ditch the Honda Civic and get myself a Harley. I guess I will learn more about the Witness Protection Program when I watch USA Network's new original series In Plain Sight on Sunday night. If the show is half as good as USA Network's show Burn Notice I'm really going to enjoy it.

In Plain Sight is a show about Mary Shannon and Marshall Mann they are U.S. Marshals who protect witnesses and help them set up their new lives in the Witness Protection Program in New Mexico. Already I can see that the show has humor, action and heart. The characters are very cool as well. Characters are what make or break a show, if you don't care about them then you won't care about the show at all. I have a feeling that you will certainly care about the characters of In Plain Sight.

Can I win...

There is a contest going on over at Brain Foggles. The deadline to enter is two days from now. For more details on how to enter you'll have to go there. I'm not going to help too much with a prize that I would really like to have. I've been slow to get this blog moved to Wordpress and also slow to update the theme. With this contest I would be able to solve both problems. Then I'd only have to work on the updating of this blog on a regular basis.

Here is what I could win. You could too but I really want to win this so I'm focusing on me being the winner.

1. Hosting for one year
2. Keyword research
3. Advice on picking a profitable niche for the blog
4. Complete set up of Wordpress and associated plugins
5. Your choice of SEO Theme
6. Technical support and continued advice through the Advisory Panel
7. A custom header made by Lori of A Cowboy’s Wife. She does some awesome work, trust me.

So that is about it. Check out Brain Foggles for more info on how you can enter the contest.

Poor Neglected Blog

Apparently I have neglected this blog so much that Google has deemed it no longer worthy of any rank. Thanks Google. Meanwhile some of my other blogs have had a good nod from Google and the PR fairy.

Summer is on the way and I promise more stuff coming for this blog.