2011: Post 17 - Tors Cove to La Manche

We paddled today.  It was a paddle destination offered by our ever present paddling buddy Tony (we refer to him as Tony R).  We agreed to meet at Bay Bulls at 9 am.  Tony said we would wait around if anyone was late.  9 am came and went and there was no sign of Tony.  It was not like him to be late.  Clyde made a call to his house and his wife said he had left at about 8 am.  We joked his car must have broken down; his 'kayakmobile' is an older car and I believe has upward of 300 thousand kilometers.   A few minutes later he called back.  He had indeed had car trouble and would not be joining us today... 

So thanks for the paddle Tony R.  You were not there in body and kayak, but you were thought of during the day.  Here's some shots to show you a little of what you missed ...

The put-in.... last time we were here there was surf dumping on the beach and one of our crew snapped of a paddle...

Todays starting line-up...

Gary

Tobias

Clyde

Lev

Most of the paddle was fairly tame.  But we found a couple of spots that were shoal and combined with the swell and low tide these spots made for some great play time and great photo opportunities....

Clyde and Lev catch a ride

None of us had paddled with Lev before but he quickly
demonstrated his skills honed from years of whitewater paddling

Yee haw, Lev

Of course Clyde never shy's away from some surf...



Get in there, Clyde



Clyde is happiest in the rougher stuff, but this will do...

We've watched Tobias develop his paddling skills since joining our Thursday practices a couple years ago.  But today we watched him take his game to a higher level.  I do not mind admitting that he has far surpassed me when it comes to getting into the rough stuff we seen today.  I said he was fearless today and he simply said he was watching what Lev was doing in the waves and he just went for it...  Here's Tobias like we have not quite  seen him before....

Let me at it....

up and over...

just missed this one...

waiting....

still waiting....

caught one...

Whoa, baby.... I think it caught me!

You still in there, Tobias?

Oh, yeah!  That was great.

Out of my way, I gotta try that again!

We started off the day at about 7 C and by the time we got back to the cars it was 20 C (according to the temp gauge on my car).  We paddled a total of just over 19 km, with a total time of 6 hours.  Thanks for a memorable day guys.  I just know we'll see you on the next paddle, Tony......