paddling 20:00 [3] 1.5 km (13:20 / km)
Another attempt at kayaking in the surf, orange boat again, time is a guess. This time at low tide, so there was a sandbar to attenuate the waves at the water's edge. No problem getting in, and I got the skirt set pretty quickly as well. A little fun excitement crashing through the waves on the way out, then I paddled north parallel to the beach to the next car ramp and back. From the ocean side, the waves were looking pretty big, and I was apprehensive about trying to get back to shore. I waited a bit until it looked like there were no big ones coming, and then skedaddled. One wave went under me and that went okay, then I kept paddling and could hear another breaking behind me, and I got a little crooked as it approached. I'm sure that it would have been fine with adequate skill, but I got flipped. No big deal, the skirt came right off the coaming, and I was in thigh-deep water, so no big deal, though it took a little work to dump the water out of the cockpit so that Nancy and I could carry the boat up the beach.
Then I spent the rest of the afternoon tossing the Frisbee around with Stephen, and warding off rickets while accelerating melanoma.
