(Download) "Learning About the Outdoors (Non-Refereed PAPER.)" by Australian Journal of Outdoor Education # Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Learning About the Outdoors (Non-Refereed PAPER.)
- Author : Australian Journal of Outdoor Education
- Release Date : January 01, 2005
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 175 KB
Description
I built my first kayak when I was sixteen and paddled straight out into stormy seas with no buoyancy or much in the way of safety equipment. Sometimes nature takes care of its innocents and I was blessed with enough time to figure out solutions to most of the key problems. What I needed to know to avoid trouble was basic boating knowledge, but I was kayaking in such an information void, that I invented almost everything I did. I compensated for a lack of kayaking skill by choosing a fairly stable 26-inch beam kayak and that worked until I started paddling narrower boats. What I was learning fast, were the seamanship skills. I soon figured out how to navigate because when I got things wrong I had to go back or land in a place I had not intended. I learned about weather and waves by pushing my luck in all sorts of conditions. I figured out about ocean turbulence by paddling solo through Kickum Jenny in the Grenadines. Looking back on it now I realize it was risky stuff. Sometimes it was bad risk, but that was how I learned. It was experiential learning taken to its extreme and if everyone tried to do it, there would be an unacceptable number of empty kayaks awash on the ocean. The lessons were well learned and, as they say, someone had to do it. And though there were gaps in what is now considered acceptable technique, it was the sort of experience that really mattered at sea.
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