Y'all are a pretty outdoorsy bunch, and I have never been kayaking before. What should I expect? What should I bring? Do you absolutely love kayaking? What other outdoorsy things do you love to do?
thanks!
Y'all are a pretty outdoorsy bunch, and I have never been kayaking before. What should I expect? What should I bring? Do you absolutely love kayaking? What other outdoorsy things do you love to do?
thanks!




Be sure to put on the highest SPF sun screen lotion.
It's fun, I go on the Banana River (Cocoa Beach) and have petted manatees.
I was just gonna ask the same thing. I'm supposed to go kayaking this weekend, I've never done it before. Anything outdoorsy is completely foreign to me. It is hard? My friend said we can get a double kayak so I can go with her?
I'll probably sit on the beach and wait for them to come back!
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I have spent a fair amount of time in a kayak, in the ocean at Daytona Beach.
Ironically enough, a 'river' kayak (used in whitewater rivers) was best in the ocean, there, because you could turn quickly and catch rides on waves--surfing in a kayak. Much more difficult to do with an 'ocean' kayak.
Down here in the Keys, there aren't any waves to speak of, or else I would have brought my kayak down from Daytona long ago. Down here an 'ocean' kayak is much better.
If you have ever spent any time in a canoe it should come fairly easily, though the paddle is used differently and takes a bit of getting used to. One common misconception is that the paddling is hard on (or good for) the arms and shoulders. True enough, I suppose, but the real work--if you are doing it correctly--is done with the back.
You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Free your mind, and your ass will follow.
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don't bring anything you wouldn't want to get wet, and attach your stuff to the kayak so if it flips,( and it does) it wont drown
These days I like to count my money. I like to wash it delicately and iron it. Sometimes I dry it with some bounty to make it all nice and cuddly. I love my money... did I say that out loud?
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I love kayaking... my brother brings his everytime we go to the river. you can buy waterproof baggies at any outdoor place. we put cigs, matches etc in them.... other regular plastic baggies will get water in them.
I just want to add I am NOT an 'outdoorsy' type person but I like kayaking and rafting.





Is that you?
My roommates--the guys that got me into surfing in kayaks--would drive up to Tennessee, West Virginia, etc. and kayak in the roughest rivers they could find.
They would return all elated and exitedly babbling about how much fun it was nearly drowning, bashing at high velocity into huge boulders, etc. I could buy that, having had a blast nearly killing myself on motorcycles in Texas.
But then I would look at their legs, which invariable bore huge nasty gouges and horrible purple bruises, etc. This did not look like 'fun' to me, so I never went with them. However I did come very close to breaking my neck getting tossed upside down onto the shore by a freak, jacked-up wave. Then I became a pussy and wouldn't go if it looked really very rough out there. So sue me...
Last edited by Djoser; 07-03-2008 at 10:26 PM.
You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Free your mind, and your ass will follow.
George Clinton
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Yes...that would finally be a picture of the elusive me. Just like you I had the kinda friends that take you out to learn on class 5 rapids....I got caught in a major hydrolic whirlpool later in the day and almost didn't make it....it is amazing what tiny insignificant peons we are in comparison to nature's power!! That picture is on the South Fork American river out in Cali.
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