Yesterday was my first try at commuting to work via water. It was a great morning and alot of fun. I may try to do this once a week.
Commute Via Water
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just a little something to spice up my coffee once I get into work
Sweet! Where do you live? Drunk much?
I could probably do that if I had a sea kayak. I think the paddle would be around 2.5 miles from my house to work I'd guess. The tide has to be really high though to flood the mud flat behind my house or I don't have anywhere decent to put in.
I could probably do that if I had a sea kayak. I think the paddle would be around 2.5 miles from my house to work I'd guess. The tide has to be really high though to flood the mud flat behind my house or I don't have anywhere decent to put in.
I live in Maryland, its about 4miles one way but living on the bay the current helps.
Not drunk too much, just use it too give me a little go in the morning.
Not drunk too much, just use it too give me a little go in the morning.
You know, most of the world uses coffee (which is an upper) instead of alcohol (which is a downer).MancilG said:
BTW - nice commute!
MancilG said:
Where on the Bay? I'm in Annapolis.
Sweet! I would have to go down a dangerous rapid and do some serious rock dodging to kayak to work, but if I get better it's doable. Right down the Deschutes River.
PrudeSkaredShtles said:
That's a great picture. I wish I could commute via kayak!
You could try it.binary visions said:
I betcha you could talk a redneck into pulling you in a kayak to work
with his lifted truck.
St. Marys County about an hour and a half south of you.jdschall said:
I'm looking for some fun trails up there maybe you can PM me some ideas.
Not to mention the fact that it was overcast and sprinkling in the region yesterday as well. :devil:
for the love of god, you are assuming that my camera was configured correctly at some point. The year could be 1892 for all I know.DamienC said:
MancilG said:
If you ever want to meet a Rosaryville or Cedarville. Let me know. Should be about halfway between the two of us I think.
It's supposed to get cold again soon. If the trails freeze up we can ride.
lay off the morning hooch, and you'll probably figure out how to use the thing.MancilG said:
A guy from the local car place gave me a ride home when I was getting my struts replaced the other day.Jeremy R said:You could try it.
I betcha you could talk a redneck into pulling you in a kayak to work
with his lifted truck.
The guy had a Jeep with ~38 or 40" tires, and a 12" lift. I asked him how he liked it, and where he went offroad around here since I used to tear up my Tacoma in the woods all the time. He looked me for a minute and said, "Well... I don't really take it off road."
So I asked if he ever took it to mud pits. He said, "No... I just drive on the road with it."
Maybe I could get him to pull me. After all, towing something couldn't possibly make his gas milage much worse than it already is.
Nice, I like Rosaryville. Nice single track. I'll let you know next time I head up there.jdschall said:
never, that would dull my sharp imagenarlus said:
Awesome commute! 
I know plenty of people do it around here (thou not necessarily by kayak). I could commute by water, but the coast line here is rediculous. Waaay longer than driving.
I know plenty of people do it around here (thou not necessarily by kayak). I could commute by water, but the coast line here is rediculous. Waaay longer than driving.
Nice commute. My office was scheduled to relocate to some business park they are building on the MD side of the Potomac, south of the Wilson bridge. I was planning on parking at Belle Haven marina and paddling over each day. Now they're planning on moving to Huntsville, AL. That's too far to paddle.
What do you wear for cold weather paddling? I've hung my boat up for the season, but it sure is tempting to get it out when we have sunny days.
What do you wear for cold weather paddling? I've hung my boat up for the season, but it sure is tempting to get it out when we have sunny days.
i just wear cycling cloths, with a boat skirt and Northface water proof wind proof shell jacket
when i was in high school, my best friend used to cross a river on a boat. he lived directly across from the school, but had to walk almost a mile down to the road where the bridge crossed. It worked really well, untill he dumped the boat and his books got all messed up...
A guy I went to college with used to live on a tiny boat at the downtown marina. He would drive this ancient john boat w/ a little motor on it to class (UT is right on the water) and pull it up into one of the creeks and tie it up to a big sycamore.oly said:
On a side note, the office I work in and where I'm typing this from floats. Its kind of a strange feeling to be typing a report and have a barge go by shaking and swaying the office.
d.e.f. said:
Awesome. I can just see him wading through all the nasty crap floating around in 3rd Creek to get to class. That water is nasty.
You don't work on one of the old TVA barges left over from the 1982Worlds Fair do you?
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We rent the upstairs office space at Volunteer Landing (right at the mouth of 1st creek)jdschall said:
I'm not a native to this area - actually Stafford, Va is home. I worked at a state park on the Potomac outside Quantico during the summers my first couple of years in college. Hell, I interned off the Ocoee too. Who would have guessed w/ my forestry degree I'd be working on the water.
But all that crap floating in 3rd creek......thats what I do........clean all that sh!t up. Plus other stuff too. But if its trash in this river and surrounding creeks and watersheds, I know about it.
Yep. I think those are the old TVA barges. Do you feed the giant carp?d.e.f. said:
Its actually built on (for lack of the brand name) dock floats. There are about a billion of them under the marina store/twra office/our office, but it still rocks and sways under wind and boat wake. During the hurricane in '04 that flooded a lot of NC (and the dirty bird outside Asheville that took out part of I40), the whole marina shifted about 10ft down river and came pretty close to breaking free!jdschall said:
I don't feed those damn carp. There are enough people at Calhoon's to do that for me.