Kayakers and tsunami What to do?

[Tman]

Before the latest string of quake-related tsunamis, I had read a lot about tsunamis, found them fascinating. One of my favorite books is The Ocean Almanac, and always dig just flipping through and reading...

Anyway, back in the days, there is one story that stuck out. June 26th, 1896. An excerpt...

"Local fishermen had put out to sea for their nightly harvest of the deep. Twenty miles offshore, the incoming waves passed unnoticed beneath their keels owing to the insulating depths of the sea. On returning home the following morning, the came upon heaving carpets of debris and corpses floating a short distance offshore. On land they found desolation and destruction".

To the Japanese, tsunami means, literally, harbor wave.

I think I would want to be as far out to sea as possible...and I will always keep a couple yaks in the garage.

And, should my local coastline suddenly recede and expose the bounties of the shoreline, I will not be like the other poor fools who rushed in to take all they could carry...I am going to do what local tribes remember from stories passed down generation upon generation and head for higher ground...