Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Kayaking to Cockatoo Island (Sydney road Trip #1)

After the boat cruise on Saturday, kayaking was right up high on my list of best activities that we did whilst in Sydney.
 Monkey and Big C both felt that they wanted their own kayaks.  We convinced Big C to ride in a double with Dave and Monkey took off in his own kayak.
 I will admit that these photos are rather staged.  We left our cameras on shore for fear of them ending up in the drink.
 We took these photos once we were back in the harbour having kayaked for a couple of hours.  We kayaked all through the harbour and along the shoreline.  We passed by Dawn Fraser pool.  She is an Australian Olympic sprint swimmer who trained at that pool.  That pool, from what I am to understand, is sea water and also ran the risk of Jellyfish and other critters being a part of her training sessions.
 We then went across a sailboat race, trying to not stuff them up, stay out of the way.  We then narrowly avoided the city ferry (read: big waves) and paddled around the entire island.  We made landfall at the island, saw some local scouts and there was even a big yoga festival on.   We got some crunchy granola snack samples, walked around the yogis and then paddled back.

 We will all have some pretty fabulous memories of this experience for a long, long time to come.

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