I am Sailing!

Ok, I was not sailing but it was hella fun to go kayaking yesterday. However I could not stop laughing once I thought of the 'What about Bob' movie where Bob (Bill Murray) was yelling... well you can watch the clip. It’s damn funny.

In any case, my first time kayaking went well. My seat was not adjusted so I can to sit up on my own all day without a back... hey I didn't know you can adjust that. I also did not know there where foot pads inside the boat. Well once I found the paddles life was great. The boat I had was a boat, not nearly as streamlined as everyone else’s. It was like pushing an egg through pudding. hee hee. But I loved it because it pushed my upper body to use more power and less lazy.

I tried to follow Lady K but she was ZOOM! out of there. I lost her when I ran aground on a sand bar and had to poke and prod my way around to find a way though. I instead went the long long way around. She was long gone by then. But it gave me a chance to make mistakes on my own and learn from them.

I got all the way around and found an inlet for a stream to go up. So up I did. I saw a beaver and birds and fishes and other such things. Fighting the current in that boat was hard though, many times I found myself being pushed around as if the water did not want me there. Finally I got to a green foot bridge and tried to get past this one fast moving part. Access denied. I was paddling like mad until I ran out of stamina. About 5 minutes (put your sex joke in here now if you want but let me say that even if its 5 minutes, it would be the best damn 5 minutes in your life man!) of pushing.

I made three tries and then decided that undine did not want me there. I respected her wishes and turned around.... sort of, sort of went backwards for 50 feet. It was fun, leave me alone! I took the long way back and met some ducklings who decided to chase me and not their mother, so I turned around and lead them back to their mother. Little buggers. I also saw a bald eagle attacking a sea bird. 2 crows came in to rescue the bird though and the eagle fled. It was interesting to see.

I then booted around some more, went back to the docks for a drink and a washroom break, got back in my boat for another tour.

All and all, something I have never done before and I did not know I could. I learned something else, my car is huge. I put the whole boat inside my car on the way home. That made me happy. Saved my roof from damage!

Well back to another day another dollar. TTYL

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