24-5-2008 Canoeing Highlights

Highlights of the trip:

  • TEAM SABER!
  • Canoes not falling off the trailer
  • Actually bringing beer and wine to drink
  • Hot milk on our cereal in the morning
  • Paddling around the river by myself in the mist at 6am
  • Awesome weather
  • Getting back to the car in daylight
  • Making it to the sand dune
  • The expected epic not actually being epic at all
  • Not as much wind as we expected on the lake during the return leg
  • Shooting stars
  • Hot chocolate in the morning
  • After struggling on a kayak, hopping back into the canoe and team saber reuniting
  • My really old canoe not sinking or taking in any water
  • Chocolate
  • Shawn photographing the nudists
  • Watching damo do tricks at the sand dune
  • Kayak limbo
  • All the talk of faddling and studded canoe paddles.
  • Watching canoes run into the bank of the river
  • 'practicing' S shapes

Things to remember for next time:

  • Cameras need batteries
  • Its no good leaving stuff in the car
  • Camping in may is cold
  • Getting everybody canoeing at 6am in winter is not feasible
  • There is ALWAYS room for alcohol – I am disappointed that more than half the group didn’t bring any form of alcohol
  • Don’t trust adam
  • Dry compartments in kayaks are not really that dry


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