Thanks Ya'll

Thanks to everyone for their input/sugestions and I'm gonna check out the coral calcium thing but first I'm gonna go with Pushs sugestion about the Celtic Ssalt. Don't ask me why I just "feel" that to be the first direction for me. I'm gonna try and locate some Celtic SS locally if not I guess I'll hafta mail order some. In the meantime I have some leftover rock Sea Salt that I used on my Master-Cleanse fast so I'll start using that till I can locate the real thing.

To asnwer you Push, my neck of the woods is SE USA particularly the State of Georgia but I paddle the whole SE eastern section across several states. I've seen pixs of the Wwater in Kiwiland and it sure is some gnarly stuff and I don't quite have a death wish yet ;+D

Usually when the water gets real gnarly you will "mostly" see folks in kayaks and not open canoes like what I paddle. BTW I know the brits refer to kayaks as canoes and what I paddle as a Canadian canoe just to try to make things a little clearer in case it's the same in your "neck of the woods".

If we're on the same page now and you have a picture of what a Canadian Canoe is you can picture a ww canoe as shorter more blunt more rockered bottom (banana shaped). The paddler sits in the middle on a foam pedestal and he's strapped in to the boat. Since the boat is "open" the section in front (bow) and behind (stern) the paddler is filled with airbags to displace water and add flotation should the boat get swamped and it will in the heavy stuff. Since one is strapped or wearing the boat as they say, in the proper boats and with the skills one can roll them(eskimo roll) like kayaks. My skill levels are not quite up to that point yet........;+D

As far as the amount of water I drink I'm doing exactly as you describe half my weight in ounces.

I've seen this collo@#$%?? silver stuff ya'll are taking about mentioned here and there. What's da poop on that?? What's it for? whats it do? How do it do it?

Swim towards the light Luke..................;+D