Moore’s Park / Lansing River Trail (Willbro Beach Kayak Landing) First off, silly me for completely forgetting about Willbro Beach landing (didn’t know the name) in front of the Lansing Shuffle downtown. Which is a perfect stop on the route and is also a kayak service location. Started out in Moore’s park. The kayak access…
Jaycee Park / Island Park Investigated Jaycee Park and was testing out new hiking shoes. So there has been some upgrades to this park and is actually a really nice park. The boat launch is a little overkill as the grand river isn’t really deep enough to support most trailer-ed boats. but the Kayak launch…
Field research on this day was in support of the Kayak project. In particular investigations took place of Dietrich Park, Turner Dodge Park, Burchard Park and the space next to Olympic Broil (across the river from Dietrich Park). Dietrich Park What was discovered with Dietrich Park is that it is small and there is only…
Notes from keep from a previous outing on 8/14/25 Kayak Deploy list1. Kayak!2. Oar3. Life Vest4. Headphones5. Sunglasses w/ strap6. Towel7. Water Bottle8. Phone9. Kayak wheels10. Bike Lock11. Bike Lock key12. Waterproof case13. water pump14. Foot Pad15. Seat Cushion16. GoPro (optional) First run roughly 3600 ft (1.1km) in 18min timearound 10 min walk to launch…
The following are notes from boat work taking place on August 23rd, 2025 Sprayed down the edge and lines to the boat with the new spider repellent purchased. We will see if it has any impact Needs a wash down again but that was expected. Should expect to do some level of wash down each…
This is transferred from Google keep. Trying to better locate the notes I have instead of keep because it makes it difficult to keep track The good news, the hydraulic reservoir uses a standard tire connection. The bad news is that i can’t connect with the Dewalt pump because cables in the way I need…
This is my life Well, this is how I try to live my life. Looks hectic, intense, stressful and downright crazy. But, as you can see in the video, the person in the video is smiling. Looks to be having fun. This is some people in this world. Not all, but some. I am one…
Ugh! FB finally completely got rid of its Notes section, which used to be the blog section. So basically all my old stuff is gone. So I had to revert this post to this super old wordpress site. Eh, maybe this will motivate me to migrate all of them to one spot. Pfft! Bahahaha!! sure……