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Maine 2017 – Acadia Day 5

By norconkm | 03/02/2018 - 12:30 pm |03/06/2018 kayaking, pictures, travel
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8/26/17 Saturday was supposed to be our third kayaking day and we headed off toward Somes Sound in the morning. The automotive gods had a different idea. I had replaced all the Subaru brakes just before the trip and they were still wearing in just a bit, but we started… Continue reading →

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Maine 2017 – Acadia Day 4

By norconkm | 02/26/2018 - 1:15 pm |02/28/2018 kayaking, pictures, travel
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8/25/17 After two days of kayaking we decided to do a bit of hiking. We went back to the Park Loop and found our way to the Precipice Trail. This was reportedly the most strenuous climb and involved a lot of scrambling and a good number of ladders and ledges…. Continue reading →

Tagged acadia, bass harbor head light, hiking, maine, national parks, precipice trail, travel

Maine 2017 – Acadia Day 3

By norconkm | 02/24/2018 - 10:02 am |02/24/2018 kayaking, pictures, travel
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8/24/17 Having scoped out Bar Harbor (8) before, we had an idea of where to park and where to get on the water. We drove down in the morning a bit before high tide and put the kayaks in the water. We had looked up some of the kayak tour… Continue reading →

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Maine 2017 – Acadia Day 2

By norconkm | 02/19/2018 - 3:04 pm |02/28/2018 kayaking, pictures, travel
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8/23/17 With a little planning the night before, we decided to go to the Pretty Marsh area of the island and paddle up the West side. I think we combined two different versions of directions and ended up targeting a launch somewhat North of the marsh itself (10). This lead… Continue reading →

Tagged acadia, kayaking, maine, national parks, the ovens, travel

Lime Island

By norconkm | 12/30/2015 - 6:00 am |12/30/2015 daily photo, kayaking, pictures, travel
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Second to last of the year (though I noticed that I did miss a few days).  One that I tagged quite a while back but never posted, from a kayaking adventure to Lime Island four or so years ago. Pictures taken with Canon 60D, EF-S 17-85mm lens @ 22mm, f/16,… Continue reading →

Tagged canon 60d, daily photo, kayaking, lime island, photoblog, photography, pictures, travel, vacation

Grand Marais Kayaking 2012

By norconkm | 07/22/2012 - 9:30 pm |08/06/2013 kayaking, pictures, travel
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Here I sit, freshly returned from Grand Marais this year.  Josh and I headed up to do some paddling in the U.P. but we weren’t officially attending the Great Lakes Sea Kayaking Symposium. We did get to hang out with some people though, and as a result may be going… Continue reading →

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Lime Island Kayaking

By norconkm | 07/18/2011 - 4:24 am |08/06/2013 kayaking, pictures, travel
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I’m not sure of the exact date at the moment, but sometime in mid July, Todd and Linda had organized a kayaking trip to Lime Island in the UP / Canada. The plan was to get to the launch around 5:30 on Friday evening and head over to the Island… Continue reading →

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North Manitou GPS Track

By norconkm | 07/25/2010 - 1:29 pm |07/25/2010 kayaking, links, pictures, travel
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GPS tracklog overlay. The above was made at GPS Visualizer. It makes some very nice plots, and has a lot of configuration options. The only downside is that because it’s all done through a web interface, there’s a lot of slow iterations to find the settings that work. In that… Continue reading →

North Manitou Kayaking

By norconkm | 07/24/2010 - 4:20 pm |07/31/2013 kayaking, pictures, travel
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Last weekend I had a chance to add a new island to the kayaking repertoire. Doug, Callum and I had been to South Manitou a few years back. This time, Todd and Linda were making a quick trip to the North island. The trip was fist planned a week earlier,… Continue reading →

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Mini Trip, No Pictures

By norconkm | 07/08/2010 - 11:58 pm |07/08/2010 kayaking
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Every other Wednesday throughout the summer a group called GRASP – Grand Rapids Area Sport Paddlers – “organizes” an evening paddle. Yesterday was the first time that the opportunity and motivation coincided and I decided to attend one. Josh, Megan and Claudia were also there, so we had our own… Continue reading →

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