2star today

was fun! again in the kayak. took the dancer for half the afternoon, and the dolphin for the rest of the day. You realize how stable actually the dolphin is, with its flat base and all. the dancer spins like anything. when you give it a nice hard stroke on its right, it takes you on a 360 degrees right. revised and learnt a host of new strokes:

-forward
-reverse
-drawstrokes
-sweepstrokes
-stern rudder
-low brace turn
-low/high brace

and got to use the cool looking spray skirt, which is not so cool, and bordering on scary when you are upside down in the water. this thing is like covering your whole cockpit. which means that when you capsize, there's this thing there preventing you from dropping out straight away. and since it is a snug fit, you would have to reach down, tug the skirt out, bang the hull, and then resurface. Which means an extra 5 seconds or so trapped there. And i shudder when we have to do the flip thing. Which equates to staying there for 10- 15 secs or so and wait for someone to flip you, with your skirt on. Which is creepy.

But the benefits of kayaking far outweight any darn thing. Dipping your paddle in the sea is cathartic. When you are skimming over the sea, you forget all the sand salt and just enjoy the whole experience. (In fact i can still feel the waves)

Stroke in, out, in, out, sweep, turn, sweep, turn, stroke stroke stroke...

this is when you truly feel free and unrestrained and the whole world is your playground :D

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