Finally managed to dissect the truly horrible Hawkesbury River Classic website and extract some information about the event. This involved reading raw javascript and HTML to reassemble the intended links – I hate crufty webpages that have been abandoned! The paddle sounds like a loooong way – 111km . Lots of training to do before October!

Still have to find time to show mum our kayak while she’s here visiting!

Guess who just had a 2 person Dagger Trinidad sea kayak delivered this morning?! It looks awesome, but it’s sooo long (5 and a half metres!) that it barely fits in the garage! It’s got 3 waterproof storage holds, deck lines, carry handles, a metal rudder and carries more than 250 litres of gear (plus two people, and whatever you can strap on top). Colour is marbled orange and yellow – not originally what we intended, but at least it’s nice and bright . Now we just have to work out how to strap it to the roof of our Subaru, and make an excuse to get out on the water. Plenty of training to do before October!

Yay!