"Wayne.B" wrote

How did you like Roque Island? We could see the antennas at Cutler
form there 3 years ago but did not go as close as you did.


Incredible place. It's reputation as one of the the crown jewels of the
coast is well deserved. I saw a good deal of it by kayak in the early 80's
but never realized that the famous beach is actually on the harbor side.
The chart shows sand on the north and I was pretty impressed with that when
I walked on it then, even though it was in steady drizzle. Speaking of
drizzle, there are a few impressive outcrops of rock along Great Head. I
paddled under one to get out of the rain and stuck my paddle up above my
head to hold myself in place against the current. There was a "clink clink"
and I realized that a several hundred pound piece of rock was loose enough
in the overhang to move easily with my paddle. I scooted out of there in a
hurry. We saw the rock fallen on this trip and I though how easily my legs
and kayak end could have been sticking out from under it. Think what this
newsgroup would have been spared We got a picture of it but I haven't
gone through them all yet.

We didn't have the best weather at Roque but stopped for a long walk on the
beach which was a high point of the trip. We also took a picture of the
northernmost inch of sand beach an the U.S. East Coast.

--
Roger Long