You Might be a Kayaker if.........

You might be a Kayaker if:

Your Yak is worth more than your car.
You paid more for a Roof-Rack than you spent on Anniversary presents.
You keep a Tide Chart in your car.
You build a 2-car addition on to your garage…and still can’t park your car inside.
Driving 800 miles for a weekend paddle doesn’t seem strange to you.
You can’t drive over a bridge without looking for water under it.
You choose a new car based on whether your current roof-rack system will fit on it.
Dress shirts and ties no longer bother you…because they are looser than a Dry-Suit neck gasket.
The smell of old polypropylene doesn’t bother you.
You have a bathing suit that’s wet from March to October.
You often find yourself responding “What smell?”
Your dog loves to roll in your pile of paddling clothes.
You have friends you don’t recognize without thier paddling jackets and PFDs on.
Your wife says you love your Yak more than her, and she sounds just like your first wife…and your second,…
People have stopped telling you “Be careful this weekend.”
You look at a Water-Slide in a theme park and try to figure out the best line.
Small Craft Advisories make your day.
You can ID the make and model of a car-topped Yak from 1/4 mile away.
To you, ‘water-proof’ means ‘a little damp’, or ‘might float’.
You use a river trip to rinse seaweed, sand and salt from your Yak.
You visit Niagra Falls and think " This might be runnable…"
You rank your trip by the number of cuts and bruises.

Yaks rule!

Gigmaster,
I’m from Niagara Falls and your comment “You visit Niagra Falls and think " This might be runnable…” "
made me remember this Jesse Sharpe character. Read about it here:
http://www.nfpl.library.on.ca/nfplindex/show.asp?id=91010&b=1
There’s other photo’s of him going over on that same site. Next to Subject, under Niagara Falls-Horseshoe Falls, Portraits-Biographical, click on Scow. on that page you’ll see the succesive photos of him going over. Gives ya the chills.
One time there was another guy that tried doing it on a jet ski. If I remember correctly, his plan was once he was clear of the precipice, to pull a parachute and float (free of the jet ski) to the lower river. He fared the same as Mr. Sharpe.
Tom.