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jbdba01 wrote: Obviously I have the GPS, but I carry maps too.
The maps are fine to help you get home after you've loaded the kayak in the truck. Out on the water you'll need charts.
Rule of thumb - your safety shouldn't depend on a battery. If you are ten miles back into a maze, a GPS is really nice to follow the breadcrumbs to get out. Until the battery dies. "My battery died" is a lousy excuse to give rescuers.
As stated in other post, I will have a good basic compass next time out after my experience at Simmons last Saturday.
I am really a dumbazz because I "learned"? this lesson once before deer hunting.
"They paved paradise and put up a parking lot" Joni Mitchell
jbdba01 wrote: Obviously I have the GPS, but I carry maps too.
The maps are fine to help you get home after you've loaded the kayak in the truck. Out on the water you'll need charts.
Rule of thumb - your safety shouldn't depend on a battery. If you are ten miles back into a maze, a GPS is really nice to follow the breadcrumbs to get out. Until the battery dies. "My battery died" is a lousy excuse to give rescuers.
As stated in other post, I will have a good basic compass next time out after my experience at Simmons last Saturday.
I am really a dumbazz because I "learned"? this lesson once before deer hunting.
What happened at Simmons & do you have an early entry pass?
RC
"You have to train hard and rest hard to go your fastest." anonymous
Carry extra batteries in a ziplock bag or drybag. Most batteries will last 10 hours in a GPS mine do at least and I carry extras.
A compass is no good if you don't know how to use it and in the fog ... could be a real problem. East is east and west is west.... But if you leave from the north and travel various directions.... which way is home?>??????
CowboysFan wrote:That is some crazy fog....Good thing you planned ahead and had the compass. Funny enough I live less than 3 miles from Apollo Beach and have never fished there. Where do you launch from? Nature park? Hit me with a pm next time you head out if you want some company.
Great report keep em coming.
Yup - just walk down to the channel (100yards?? 20 yards in soft sand) and bingo you're in. Park closes at 6pm, and the warden says there's crime if you fish at night. Hard to believe with those $1M homes sitting right there. It's typically a smash and grab. Perhaps the answer would be to leave the doors/windows open. You're fine during daylight hours, it's the outside parking after hours that's a problem.
I'll let you know next time I go. My schedule is goofy - so it may be a booty call (err...booty pm).
My schedule is pretty crazy too. Booty pm is good with me. The colder it gets the more I ask myself why haven't I fished the warm outflow of TECO.
