Just got back (ok it was actually a few hours ago!) from 2 hours of solid paddling on the Lane Cove River. We had a nice tail-wind for most of the paddle from Chatswood/North Ryde through to Riverview, from where we had an unexpectedly great view of the Harbour Bridge and city skyline. Of course, given the downstream tail-wind, we had a monster head-wind paddling back upstream, but surprisingly we managed to make the return trip in almost exactly the same time as the downstream journey. I think at least part of that was because we refrained from stopping to often, due to the fact that we started drifting backwards every time that we did stop paddling to rest.

I’m not sure exactly how far the paddle was, but a quick guesstimate would be something like 12-15km for the whole trip. Not bad for a Sunday morning! Fear our tanky kayaking muscles!!