go kayaking more

A much longer trip this time, and we went through a few rapids with whirlpools (and yes, we capsized). The river ended up flooding a few days later, so we were lucky we went when we did.

I felt this time it was much easier, but that could have been the current taking us. Not so much time to take photos.

I think i’d like to try kayaking in the open ocean with the waves… my brother tried that recently and he said it was a totally different experience.

kayaking is awesome, I have friends that do it all year round (and we have 4 seasons where I’m from). But that kinda things not for me, I kayak a lot all summer long. I like a good long trip about 6 miles or more, it really works your endurance. A lot of days you go out might have some wind blowing you in weird directions and quickly turn your good idea into a bad experience, but that’s kayaking and if you let those days get you down, you’ll miss that day where the sun is glistening off the water just right and the temperature is sweet, and the wind is there but it’s a playful one, sometimes with you, sometimes against, but overall it’s a beautiful day. You’ll miss those days if you don’t tough out the cruddy ones and keep on trucking. By kayaking more, you learn the art of paddling. The repetitive motion, pull with the bottom arm, push with the top arm- rather than the beginners’ pull, pull, pull, pull…methodology.

need to change this goal to – find someone that will kayak hard enough to go with me. cant go alone and everyone i take with me doesn’t want to row hard! :[
would be awesome to go on a trip sometime and camp on the banks of a river/lake with a professional team

just got home from trying out the new kayaks for the first time and.. it was everything i thought it could be. it was amazing!! i wanted to go back as soon as i had left and will hopefully try to get out everyday. and maybe my next investment will be a better roof carrier for them instead of just the straps that take a while. what a great decision to take the initiative to go out there and try this :]

wow so just got 2 kayaks today. had to borrow money for one but will work on paying it off in the upcoming weeks. just got home from figuring out how to attatch them to my car roof and going to try them out tomorrow with my brother. this should be good :]

i’m going to check out some kayaks today! trying to go early every morning this summer but im still working on someone to go with me. hopefully it will work out!

I thought the muscles of my general shoulder/arm region were pretty friggin’ good. Kayaking taught me otherwise. Haven’t been since I was a wee lass, and as my mother has constantly reminded me, your body ages but your mind doesn’t.

It was Shigehiko’s first kayaking experience, and sad to say, despite my confidence level (having gone several times as a teenager), he certainly humbled me in terms of muscle power and general endurance.

I just gave up lots and said I wanted to take photos of the scenery. (Ha Long Bay is quite a beautiful place and makes for some great photography) And while that was true to a certain extent, I certainly didn’t need to stop every 5 bloody minutes.

So my next trip to Cambodia/Thailand/Laos will also have a kayaking adventure… but perhaps this time I will take into consideration that I am not a pro, and perhaps tubing in Laos will be a little more my pace. But i’m not giving up yet.

I’m going kayaking next week!

...is to plan out a bunch of possible kayaking trips and have all the relevent information written down so that whenever I get a chance, I can just get up and go without having to take time out and plan things. I figure this will make my everyday life more fun too as I can always be thinking about the fun stuff even if there isn’t any time to get up and go just at the moment.