Went for a training run in the harbour today. And it was one of the harder paddles I have done in a while. I went from Eastbourne to Ward then dad called me, they were walking over to Butterfly Creek, then I put my paddle in and rolled myself over… I paddle rolled myself up and was cold and wet. And dad thought I was eaten by a shark, actually I just hung up by accident. I had quite a lot of water in my boat already and I didn’t want to go back to the Main Land so I decided to go to Matiu island to go to and empty my boat so I battled the wind and swell over there. It is three km’s and it took me almost an hour which is really slow. When I was getting close I could feel how full it was getting. It was getting harder and harder to balance. I got to the landing and the Matiu Warden helped me empty and set back up to go back to Days Bay. Then kind of slid back to Eastbourne on the waves.
On another note, Tuesday is looking really good for the crossing day and it looks like a go. I have all my gear and a support boat. So yeah Tuesday. I am looking forward to it.
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I fly over the land.
Weather was bad.