On 5/30/12 5:48 PM, John H. wrote:
On Wed, 30 May 2012 10:01:04 -0700, wrote:

"John H." wrote in message
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On Tue, 29 May 2012 16:05:49 -0700,
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"John H." wrote in message
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Took younger daughter, husband, and the grandkids out for a day of playing,
tubing and eating on the
Potomac yesterday. Left Quantico and headed north to a place called
Leesylvania State Park. Nice
place with a nice long beach, camp store, picnic tables, etc. Hadn't been
there before. Boats are
allowed to be brought right up on the beach, if desired, but the water is
shallow for a ways out, so
anchoring is easy.

No problems with the boat. Put the battery in. launched it, and she fired
right up. A 150 Yamaha is
a great engine for tubing! Son-in-law thought he could stay on. He lost.

Great time was had by all.


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Two problems here. First the wind has been blowing for days. Big winds.
Ocean is tore up. 2nd, since we are retired, do not have to go out on
weekends and holidays with crowds of boaters.

The second part is true for me also, but the grandkids are still in school
until 20 June, or so.
That limits playing with the kids to the weekends. Once vacation starts, the
boat won't see the
water on weekends (unless wife says, "Let's go boating!")


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My oldest grandkid just turned 4, but the parents work. :) Which is good
these days.

It's nice that the Potomac has cleaned up from what it was many years ago. Of course the water isn't
drinkable, but it's clean enough for the Nation’s Triathlon - which it wouldn't have been thirty
years ago.

http://www.welovedc.com/2010/09/13/n...-record-crowd/


Not only isn't it drinkable, the water in the Potomac is hazardous to
your health.

http://wamu.org/news/11/05/04/potoma..._in_health.php

If you are swimming in the Potomac, you are drinking the Potomac.