There is no better way to unwind and unravel the ball of string. I hadn’t been out on the water for a float for two days so I squeezed in a late afternoon paddle.

Category Archives: kayaking
The Sun and Fun Tour of 2012-13
Every year we disappear to Crescent Head on the mid north coast for a six week camping adventure for a bit of sand, sun and fun and as usual it didn’t disappoint. The locals will kill me for letting the cat out of the bag, but it’s brilliant!
Super Saturday
5.33am: An Orange sunrise is the best way to start the weekend
The dark before the dawn: the beginning of a great obsession!
As part of the blog writing course that I am currently undertaking, I must write a review. So I thought I would review Lake Burley Griffin; what started me paddling; and the head space that it provides me on a daily basis.
Last August I was in the third stage of an intensive three month blast of chemotherapy.
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A different perspective
It was minus 5 that morning; you know its cold when the water freezes and turns to ice on your kayak hatch. I remember it well, the lake was covered in fog, the water was like a sheet of glass and then suddenly the fog cleared and the morning sun burst through long enough for me to race over underneath the Commonwealth Avenue Bridge to snap this shot. 
Minutes later the lake was engulfed again.
Great way to send off winter
What a great way to send off winter. After a cold day of squalling winds and patchy rain, who would have ever thought that the day would turn out like this? It was truly stunning! My main aim was to paddle into the main basin to capture a silhouette sunset of the Brindabella Mountain range, but as I paddled under the Kings Avenue Bridge I noticed that the water was a like a sheet of glass and the Carillion foreshore lit up by the sunset. 



