I fastened an orange bike flag to the kayak to help. I also hug the shoreline, that helps. I had an incident in the power boat some years ago, near the barber pole, leaving M-Boro bay. A swimmer was crossing right in the boating lane. Anybody that knows there area know that it is tight through there. There was a guy swimming below the surface, he decided to pop up right in front of the boat. I luckily turned in time. Fortunately we were the only boat going through the area at that time as well. If something had caught my eye and I had looked away for a second, I would have hit him and probably killed him. I looked back and the guy dove back under the water, kept going, like nothing was wrong. It really shook me up. Accidents happen be careful out there.
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