Row your boat
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pergamondSo canoeing? Way harder than I was led to believe. Okay, so trip was might have been entirely partially my idea; a celebration of the fact that water is in liquid form in Florida. I also had a short wooden paddle but, if I was strictly honest, I doubt it affected my technique all that much.
We rented canoes on the Silver River in Ocala; a pretty route that wound through thick greenery packed with wildlife. We saw turtles (huge ones), alligators (huger ones) and monkeys (less huge but made up for it with quantity). I'd previously only heard rumours of wild monkeys in Florida; largely from a friend who also tried to tell me that the British bird population had turned carnivorous and was eating the cows. I believed neither story but am now casting a suspicious eye on our sparrow population.
There are somethat is, all of our canoe trip who might argue we were utterly slightly optimistic about how far we could paddle in one afternoon. (This might have been partly because we rented boats at a place further down from our original port of choice.) However, the fact I am having some difficulty moving my fingers from the top keyboard row to the bottom speaks for itself is coincidental. The weather was beautiful, the wildlife stunning and the injuries ... well, I at least I have free health care again.
The only blip on the trip was the presence of a large number of motor boats whose engine exhausts are basically at the level of a canoe. At first, I was irritated by these creations; the noxious environment-damaging metals beasts! By the time I was heading back, I was furious. Damn it all! Why wasn't I on a boat with a BBQ, eh?
The distance of the trip is a subject for debate. In my personal opinion, an unfortunate wrong turn caused us to bag half the coast of Florida. Length-wise.
We rented canoes on the Silver River in Ocala; a pretty route that wound through thick greenery packed with wildlife. We saw turtles (huge ones), alligators (huger ones) and monkeys (less huge but made up for it with quantity). I'd previously only heard rumours of wild monkeys in Florida; largely from a friend who also tried to tell me that the British bird population had turned carnivorous and was eating the cows. I believed neither story but am now casting a suspicious eye on our sparrow population.
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The only blip on the trip was the presence of a large number of motor boats whose engine exhausts are basically at the level of a canoe. At first, I was irritated by these creations; the noxious environment-damaging metals beasts! By the time I was heading back, I was furious. Damn it all! Why wasn't I on a boat with a BBQ, eh?
The distance of the trip is a subject for debate. In my personal opinion, an unfortunate wrong turn caused us to bag half the coast of Florida. Length-wise.
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Date: 2010-04-04 04:14 am (UTC)Pictures or it didn't happen. ^_~
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Date: 2010-04-04 05:03 am (UTC)Monkeys were fairly awesome.
WE'RE GOING TO SEE PERCY JACKSON TOMORROW! .... Thought you might have forgotten ^.~
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Date: 2010-04-04 05:05 am (UTC)YES. YES WE ARE. :D Not possible! AND CLASH OF THE TITANS ON TUESDAY! WHEE~
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Date: 2010-04-04 05:10 am (UTC)YEAH! Are you sure you're ok with seeing it yet again? I totally don't mind going alone.
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Date: 2010-04-04 05:17 am (UTC)Nope! I don't mind at all. I need to see it at least as many times as I saw Avatar. XD And I haven't seen it for a while. I really don't mind going at all~
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Date: 2010-04-04 05:22 am (UTC)Awesomeness \o/ \o/ \o/ TOTALLY EXCITED. Thought I was going to miss it on the big screen~
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Date: 2010-04-04 05:25 am (UTC):D I'm just hoping we have the theater to ourselves. Then we can laugh at all the parts that don't make sense with the book. XD
... ALSO I AM TOO LAZY TO LOG OUT OF RATCHET'S JOURNAL. SORRY. D:
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Date: 2010-04-04 06:16 am (UTC)That would be great XD Totally looking forward to it \o/
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Date: 2010-04-04 06:23 am (UTC)Props to you!!
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Date: 2010-04-04 06:26 am (UTC)There was a frog sitting on one of our canoes that another friend thought of kissing to turn it into a prince (we were that desperate for rowing help). It was pointed out, however, than recent Disney evidence labels that as unwise.
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Date: 2010-04-04 06:30 am (UTC)That'd prob screw you over even more :P