Subject: Re: baidarka Atlantic white cedar for gunwales?
From: Robert Livingston (bearboat@attglobal.net)
Date: Sat Dec 02 2000 - 20:56:58 EST
On 12/2/00 7:12 AM, "James Mitchell" <mariner@seanet.com> wrote:
>
> Of the logs they are taking, I doubt that they are chipping them for paper.
> On my next trip this spring, I look forward to seeing more of the beautiful
> structures they build in their style, including wooden temples that have
> stood for centuries without the help of metal. I will also hike again in
> their ancient forests, under the beeches and pines standing tall in a
> knee-high carpet of green and yellow bamboo grasses. I will again appreciate
> the great job they are doing to restrict sprawl and paving of their forests
> and hillsides, their beautiful and extensive parks, an appreciation of
> nature and beauty from which we in the American west have much to learn.
> My friends and I are already planning our paddle trips on the south coast,
> among the hundreds of islands.
The Goto Reto?
We paddled there in the 1970's. At that time, the junk and flotsam on their
beaches was impressive. The Japanese tended to treat the ocean as a work
area rather than a recreational one. Much more polluted than our coast
(Washington/BC). It was nonetheless a great trip because the people were
incredibly gracious in a way that I have never encountered elsewhere.
Japan labors under a burden of marked overpopulation which is hard to get
around although one applauds their efforts.
>
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