Carla and I have been doing very well on our "Don't call it a comeback" comeback tour... The thing is we haven't been doing a lot of it on the bikes. It looks like Carla has discovered and I have re-discovered the only thing Long Island is good for. I should say the only thing that surrounds Long Island... The Ocean. We took a chance and drove over to the Connetiquat river to see what all the hub bub was... The river is a tidal river a few mile long... It is beautiful. We kayaked up the river and took our time discovering all of the wildlife and little canals. Before we put in we met a nice fellow and began talking with him... Only to discover he is one of the original Mountain Bikers who cut some of the major trials on Long Island... These days he is retired and has gone from biking to kayaking. I can see why... Before we shove off he gave us some goods on a few other put ins... These are places that are still beautiful even as the interior of the Island fills up with people and the roads become more choked. We spent about three hours getting to love this place... Sunday we woke and decided to try another put in... After about a hour of no sucess finding it we decided to hit the river again. We decided to try the bay end out... Boat traffic was light but the wind was whipping... It was more beautiful than the day before... We saw all manner of wildlife and paddled for another three hours... Got home... stowed everything away and went back to the beach and did a few hours of Boogie boarding.. The wave weren't bad... Carla too a nice one off the top of a wave and lost her goggles and a contact :-P Trooper that she is did the rest of the afternoon one eyed... and she did pretty damn well! It was a full weekend to be sure...
Plenty of lakes is one thing we have near us so I considered this sport. But at $600-1000 for a set up, I'm sticking with bikes and guitars for a while.
Arguably easier to learn than kiteboarding, and you don't have to play teabag in Whitey's kitchen during the learning curve. A lot of fun in an area where the wind and waves are pretty dependable.
While I'm a pretty mellow XC biker, hard to imagine a bike ride with more adrenaline generated than a good wave ride on a windsurfer. They make excellent complementary sports.
Well, I was thinking the reverse. Watching the folks line up for tea-bag practice (with the occassional sanding of body parts as they drag across the beach) in Hood River looks downright painful to me. Falling off a windsurfer seems like a much more benign learning curve.
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Arguably easier to learn than kiteboarding,
First time I've heard that.... due to super-wide boards? -- PeteCresswell
