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...favorite inanimate thing - and I have owned many things - was an old wooden boat. She was sixteen feet long and too heavy to lift, and I could just barely drag her over a sandbar to the water. She had been, long before, a lifeboat on a ship. They made her lapstraked and beautiful back then, and strong. But they did make her heavy; it took three strokes just to get her moving. Get her going, though, and boy she went - she rowed out straight as a city street, through waves and wind with a wonderful, easy motion. As a young...
...Ocala National Forest. Two weeks ago, she was there again with a few members of her extended family. That Sunday the aspiring artist, 23, slipped into the water to snorkel her way back to the cabin. A few minutes later, her former stepfather's wife Jackie Barrett left the sandbar where they had been sunning themselves and followed Campbell. The young woman was nowhere to be found. Barrett grabbed a kayak and paddled downstream in search of her. No luck. So Barrett headed back toward the cabin--to find her husband Mark and a family friend frantically gouging...
Next time the budget meetings and staff cuts and underwater options make you desperate to get far, far away, imagine this. You are standing on the sandbar of a wild river, casting a gaudy pink-and-purple Showgirl streamer at coho salmon the size of fence posts holding in a pool downstream. There's not another human within 100 square miles. The helicopter that dropped you off will return in four hours as the sun slips behind the mountains. By then you will have hooked at least 20 shining silver coho weighing from 8 lbs. to 15 lbs. You will...
...fishing is kept low impact: anglers must use barbless hooks and release every catch. At the end of the day, when Craig's blue-and-white chopper whup-whups up the valley to lift you off the sandbar, only your bootprints remain. And you take home nothing but a tired casting arm and the memory of some of the greatest fly-fishing you will ever experience...
...Canton, as Guangzhou was called, had been banking opium-trade profits for almost half a century?and going to war to preserve them?when in 1860 they extracted Shamian from the Qing as spoils of the Second Opium War. They built a granite wall around what was then a sandbar?essentially building an island...