Paddled out to Matiu with Dad this afternoon. It was a nice little trip. Loving the new camera dad bought off Trade Me - so much easier, and way better quality than the Rollei one I was using before.
I was in Andy’s boat, it is very nice. I practiced a couple of things as well, made sure I could combat-roll in it and did a John Wayne, a manoeuvre where I do an emergency exit and have to get back into my boat from the water.
Trying to get back into a daily blog, but basically I have been working all weekend on my research document for the project, which at this stage covers information about the area: Te Ao Māori; safety and the gear that I need; history; and geology and climate. it is a bit of a grind and I would prefer to be paddling, but the term is coming to an end... I will be doing my northwards coast trip over the holidays, and I may be able to keep posting some stuff from my phone because I saw I can edit the website from it the other day.
Anyway we will see. I have polo tomorrow night and I will take the camera and maybe dad will take some vid and I will upload that. Annoyingly I can’t do it straight to the website because it only allows you to embed video, which basically means I have to upload it to You Tube and then link it in. Or I could, come to think of it, put them up on the FB page but then people who are not following it through FB won’t see it, hmmmm I will have to think. Maybe I will just do both.
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Water on the lens on the way out.
Dad in the distance. South end of Matiu.
Seal was there again. Maybe it isn't lost?
Light in the rock.
Pushed myself through that gap. :)
These last few are from last Tuesday when I was in Titahi bay.
Blinding.
South Island in the distance and Mana on the right.
Sunset.