Pete takes to the water!
Hello all,
Well its been a while since I last updated my blog, so I thought I should tell you what I have have been upto recently.
The wedding went really well and I have already have had a number of people tell me that they like the photos and some have said they thought I was a professional photographer which really made me smile.
Since the wedding I have been busy with my rockets and trying to get ready for a few school workshops and a display for a large model show in about a months time.
My health has also taken a turn for the worse again with my left knee “giving way” once again which resulted in me spending more time on the crutches.
But last weekend thanks to my good friend George I had my first go at Kayaking.
Its been almost a year since I found out that my good friend George had taken up kayaking and I decided that as I had done it a few times years ago and enjoyed it, that it would be a good sport for me to do.
I have been trying to find a sport which would help me to get fit and lose weight, but which did not put stress on my knees and kayaking seems to fit the bill.
So with Georges help over the winter months I slowly brought myself a “RIO” inflatable Kayak.
I then also started to get the various bits needed to canoe safely, including a buoyency aid, paddles, various pumps and dry bags to keep my stuff dry.
Before I can go on the rivers and lakes George sugguested that I try a pool session to try out the kayak, this sounded like a good idea and so waited for the next session.
Unfortunately I missed my first scheduled session as my knee again decided again to play up and gave way a few days before. But finally on last Saturday myself and my kayak got to go on the water.
I was really nervous at first, but after a few minutes I was helped into the kayak and started trying to paddle the boat around the pool. At first I had a hard time getting the kayak to go straight, but soon I started to get the knack and got more confident with my paddleing.
For the next 2 hours I had a lot of fun learning how to control the boat and finding out how to get in and out whilst in the water, as well as getting a lot of advice from George and the other people in the group.
A few of the more experienced kayak’ers asked how stable my kayak was, and then for about 30mins a few of them tried very hard to get the boat to roll.
The end result was that they found my boat to be a lot of fun and very hard to capsize / roll which is what I really wanted.
I now hope in the next few weeks to go onto one of the clubs local rivers and try it out for real. I am also hoping to take along a few of my waterproof cameras so hopefully I will soon be able to take some interesting photos from the river.
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