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Patrick (04-17-2001 01:04):
Saw the picture on the front page there and I gotta say it looks interesting.
About how long is West Wall? I can't see any ends to that thing.
Where is West Wall? Do you need an offroader to get to it?
And, how high does the water get? I can see the barnacle and water fauna only grows up to a certain point. Does the water come over it? Does it ever come up in certain points? I'm asking this because I don't want to go out and find that I'm trapped out there until the tide lowers.
How about wave action? Do the waves crash over it or what? I don't see too much waves there but I don't know if snapped the photo at a sedated time.
And finally, would it look silly if I wore a life preserver? I have some type III PFDs. This summer I plan on fishing some of the rock piles down in OC MD and the tip of their Inlet jetty. Drowning is perhaps the worst way to die and I'm not going out like that. I was thinking I could secure some light sticks to it and if I got washed off, I could snap them. and maybe put a whistle on a retracting lanyard. Can't be too careful.
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BTW - That is a real Jetty...
OK, the Wall is probably 1/4 mile long but only the first third is of interest at this time of year...
It's pretty dry and the water does not come across the top. If you have a good cranking SW wind for a few days the waves will make alot of high spray and you will get wet but you'll never be stranded. The photo was taken at a fairly mellow time and the water had just turned in from low tide about and hour or two before.
The only way you would drown is if you slipped, bashed your head on a rock unconcious, and nobody bothered to save you. The water is not too deep and yes you would look very silly in a Type II and marginally silly in a TypeIII Wski type vest. I would recommend another TypeIII to anyone for seriously nasty conditions of the inflatable variety. Some models, if unconcious, will automatically inflate. Wearing something like that is not a laughing matter. But if you were to show up in a bright orange with a throw cushion strapped to your butt, expect a chuckle or three... ;P
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