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<blockquote><strong class="quote">Anonymous wrote:</strong> <P>I'm not sure about all the particulars, but I was surprised once on Mason Lake late in the afternoon with long period swells when it was otherwise dead calm. Scared the crap out of me and my passenger! <BR></P> <P><BR></P> <P>It was so calm that the water was a mirror of the low scattered clouds and I had no idea how high I was above the water. I had just reduced my descent rate but not quite enough and the last few feet I got the wave reflection out of the corner of my eye and fortunately we skipped off the top of a swell I had just enough power on to pull and add a bit more to skip off the top of the next swell before we were airborne again.</P> <P><BR></P> <P>I shallowed the descent rate and was able to make the landing. Once down and having gathered my wits, I was amazed at the size of the swells that we just could not see. Had we had a shallower descent rate it may not have been such a big surprise but that wave action out the corner of your eye is a real eerie feeling.<BR></P> </blockquote><br>
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