Black River Winter Paddle
On January 12, Angela Marshal, owner and operator of Kayak Carolin Wilmington, organized a kayak paddle trip with invitations through the MeetUp website. We met at Newby’s Landing near Kelly, NC, on the Black River in Bladen County, NC - not to be confused with several other Black Rivers in…
Neusiok Trail Hang Fire
For many years, backpacking was my main outdoor sport, along with tennis, snow skiing, scuba diving and others. Due to my pain before, during and after arthritis, right hip joint replacement surgery, left hip joint replacement surgery, and pinched nerve spinal surgery, I have not backpacked for about five years.…
A Bucolic Walk Through Time
There is an old, large, arboreal cemetery near where Janet and I live next to the Historic District in Wilmington, NC. It is appropriately named Oak Dale. The grounds are full of big, old live oak trees, some with Spanish moss and ivy draped on their limbs. It is a…
Successful Kayak Rescue Training
For 60 years I have canoed all over the mountains of west North Carolina, east Tennessee, southwest Virginia and northwest Georgia. I paddled in creeks, rivers and lakes. Flatwater and whitewater. I was not particularly concerned about turning over. I had a boat full of flotation bags, a bailer, bow…