225.8

According to my handy-dandy navvy onyx app I’m approximately river mile 225.8 which I find interesting because I Navionics it shows me the rack that’s just south of me on my side it shows me the Deppe that’s on the other side of the river down to about according to what it says 60 feet shows me how shallow it is on this side and the fact that when I plotted and planned my choice to cross over I am crossing over from shallow to shallow before the band it’s interesting because a lot of people want to travel on the channel or in the middle of the river well the channel doesn’t run directly in the middle of the river if you look program that is designed for boats and for sailing it shows a sailing line on navvy onyx for sailboats it shows the deep channel for ocean trollers it shows the shallows as well as things like submarine cable and other types of pipeline and moring spots in buoy‘s and night lights in Dabo reason just about everything that’s on the water or in the water or under the water or along the banks of the water and I like that because while I may not be able to use it per se on the phone I am able to at least evaluate the information that’s there so that I can compare it to what my track years and then accordingly adapt my line that I choose to use on the Mississippi River in crossing over back-and-forth from one side of the river to the other to avoid the deep channel and the barge traffic that is invariably going to go towards moorings or landings or stay in between the booties that are its guide in order for the barges to travel up and down the river now normally most people can see some of those booties in track for themselves and stay in the middle and avoid barges but I like to stay as far away from traffic as possible and so looking for shallow waters tends to also give me a different kind of current is it current is an always based upon how deep the water is but sometimes a faster current travels along the shore  shoreline often running over shallows faster than it does in deep waters now this doesn’t apply to everything and you do have to be careful of blogs and other pro Trude meant that may be extended out from the shore but if you’ve looked at your Maps and you ply did your course you could pretty much adapt by learning to read the river and seeing where as you look at the surface of the river your fastest or your slowest water might be.

That doesn’t mean you always pick the fastest and it doesn’t mean you always pick the slowest for a kayaker you pick the safest and sometimes that can mean risk of an investment or sometimes evaluating the most likely possible route to avoid an obstruction it’s on the water but to give you an oversight in the back of your mind at least you have a picture of with the river is doing according to Navion X and that’s what I like about using technology and not for shaking it just simply because I want to be a purist but being a Whitewater kayak her and being a expedition type of kayaker since my kayak does not roll.

I want to use all my available resources and tools to plan for and be ready for any eventuality whether it be sunshine or rain or snow or win or boat traffic of some type or obstructions that are in the water or anything else that might come my way and I think that’s why people don’t understand just how much goes into my Sam welfare or Deb Devil May care attitude it isn’t one of belligerence but rather one of careful planning learning to read the river experience from being in my boat and being mellow ball or adaptable to the water circumstances such as they are and The weather

I am amazed at just how much information really is available to just the average cell phone user that I am one of the opinion that you don’t need anything more than a cell phone and offline usage of your cell phone with Maps and with connections and with ongoing applications that can duplicate radios and sure wave and other functions that you don’t need to much technology but that really we’ve come so far that just about everything can be done on the phone if you use it properly and correctly and it doesn’t require cell phone towers