A great day on the bay

After four days of rain and storms it was great to see a clear, sunny day. Four of us spent the day paddling from Victoria Pt over to Coochie, down the eastern side of the Macleay Island to Karragarra Island for lunch. WIth the ebbing tide, we headed north along the western side of Macleay then back across to Coochie and Victoria Pt. All up we paddled 27km .... certainly a great day on the bay.

Plenty of dugongs and turtles to be seen on the way.

For more info on our route and export it to Google Earth, have a look at the gps track on motionbased. com. Just follow the link below:


http://trail.motionbased.com/trail/invitation/email/accept.mb?senderPk.pkValue=68193&unitSystemPkValue=1&episodePk.pkValue=7223520

Count the jelly beans

Jelly beans? Sea kayaks more likely  ;-) 

Spent the weekend at the Sea Kayak Symposium on the Gold Coast ... an excellent weekend with too many highlights to count ... although seeing the photos/videos and meeting the lads from the Australia to New Zealand sea kayak paddle was certainly up there. Learning to eskimo roll was also fun.

This is not today

No Daisy Hill Wednesday morning ride this week as the tracks are sodden after much rain over the last few days.

This photo was taken last week on the commute to work ... riding along the river is a great way to start the day !

It may not be white ...

It may not be white but I am still happy to get a replacement frame :-)

Within the week, the new raw frame will be swapped in and it will be out with the white (tears welling) :-{ The new frame will be lighter (no Noosa dirt) and quieter (no cracks).... you won't hear me coming.

Nirvana

A great ride around Daisy this morning. Only 9 of us today, so we headed over to Nirvana. With a brief shower on the way there, the tracks were perfect. Here are a few photos of the log roll over that has claimed a number of riders over the years. This crew had no problem though.


Andrew



Neil


Rich



Stu



CD



Tim



Aaron

Waiting for Yeti

Yeti?

20 knots off the starboard beam

It was time for another paddle but the weather was a bit dodgy with wind warnings, fronts passing and the odd thunderstorm thrown in for good measure. We found a sheltered spot to get a bit of practice.

All was good apart from a local fisherman saying that he had seen a 25ft white pointer not far from where we were .... I suspect he had had a bit too much to drink.   Although when a cormorant surfaced just beside me, my heart did race just a little  :lol

Some days are ....

I'm sure everybody has those days where it just doesn't go right.

• Surfing a new spot and you nose dive on your first wave right in front of the local crew ...
• Rockclimbing and you forget how to tie a figure 8 ...
• 10 minutes into a mtb ride and you wash out the front wheel on an easy uphill turn, stack it and end up on your back looking up the sky through the trees ... that was today.

Don't know what it was, but there many more potential stacks as the uncoordinated gumby factor of my riding was at an extreme high today ... like someone once said, some days are not diamonds. Still had a good morning out there with the Wed morning crew :-)




Chickens revenge.

It sounded like a shot rang out in the forest and "chickendrinkers" tyre had a huge hole in the sidewall ... some say that chickens with guns were seen running from the scene. It is likely.


Wezzy found.

We thought he was lost, but now he is found. Wezzy was found riding at unbelievable speed and style before we managed to stop him for a chat. It was all Salsa with not a Surly to be seen ... something about a crack in the Surly Monkey which was only ridden on Sundays by a girlie man ;-)

It was good to see Wezzy out and about again.

20 kgs of carbon

Well its not all carbon ... there is some Kevlar in the mix as well. And its not a bike either. The latest addition to the outdoor gear stable is a carbon kevlar sea kayak ... and today was the first real paddle in it, as well as learning how to get out of it underwater, then get back into it.

Great fun !!! How do I split the time between mtb and sea kayak????