Kayak On The ‘Bidge

1.35 PM. It’s back on the roof now. Speaking of backs, mine hurts.

Okay sleeps, since waking after midnight for a long while. Slow to get going; hung around Mawson like a bad smell. Chatted, rather, got earbashed, by a local. Homeless people in Mawson up in the bushes on the close-by hill he walks up.

Shower at Tuggeranong aquatic.

Then ummed about getting out the kayak, sitting in the van at Pine Island for a long time, low sugars so not good to go, and finally just said fuck it, do it.

Took forever to blow up, stupid but expensive pump, and used the hand pump in the end.

My back was gone before it inflated. Agony, working on the ground.

Good on the water though. Better than last time re lumbar and legs. Didn’t go far up or down the river but got used to the boat and didva lot of looking at the same thing, but this time on the river.

On the Murrumbidgee!! I couldn’t leave Canberra without doing it, after the expense and years of mystique.

A 40 minute paddle, probably.

Pine Island Beach launch. All wrapped up for another day. I’m glad now I got it.

The wind determines where the kayak goes over the current. Kept blowing me upstream.