Wednesday, 7 May 2008

a bit of a paddle...

Bank Holiday Monday, fantastic weather, so we decided to go kayaking...

We chose the river tees as its only a ten minute drive up the road and we're lazy.









Me, Mikey (my big bro), Scot & Mark headed out in two Cars to the tees barrage for a days gentle (?) paddling... or so we thought...!



Scot decided it would be a good idea to paddle from the barrage to Preston Park, and back again. This is not a massive distance to travel, however, Mikey (my big bro) doesn't have much paddling experience OR his own boat, which meant that he was using a boat designed for a 5ft dwarf that weighs nothing. (mikey is a little bit bigger).



This caused a few er, problems...



Mikeys boat decided that it prefered being on the water upside down, which unfortunately for Mikey, meant that he did a lot of swimming. After a number of false starts, and before we even set off on our mini expedition. I got lumbered with the dwarfs boat, and Mikey took the 'unsinkable' Carolina off me!

The weather was fantastic, and once I had figured out how to keep the tiny boat upright AND tracking in a straight line, we we're off on what turned out to be a great days paddling.

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