Hi de hi campers, we are back on a very new adventure for us ... we have ditched the bicycles for kayaks so we really should be known as 2 paddles and 4 paws!
Now we are back in to our normal lives we have decided that the arm muscles for kayaking are in serious need of building up and strengthening so we have decided to have an introduction for boot camp were we are plonked on the north arm at Lakes Entrance for a week where we can just launch the kayaks into the water and start training those arm muscles a few times a day!
We left around 9am this morning and got here around 1.30pm after some delays just outside Sale with some road works.
We are at the recreation ground on the north arm at Lakes Entrance. It is a council type campground around a footy oval, it is cheap ($20 per night unpowered or pay for 6 nights and stay for 7 - that is what we are doing!) and most importantly it is the perfect location ... the unpowered section is right next to the water and the caretaker put us on the site that is right beside the water so we don't need the trolleys to portage the kayaks ... it is perfect and we are happy to be here.
Below are some photos of the kayaks on the car ...
I forgot to insert the photo of our campsite but here is one of Neil and Kouta under the shade cloth sitting on our Hellinox chairs ... they are fab!
so around 3pm we decide to do a little paddling and went up north just to loosen up the arms ... Kouta loves it and keeps a serious eye on me the whole time.
see he is watching me making sure I stay behind him!
if you look at the shore line behind me you can see the campground we are at, the powered sites are all along the foreshore and the unpowered is to the side with only 2 unpowered sites on the waters edge and we have one of them!
after dinner (a mark down roast chicken from Woolworths which is only 300m from the park entrance - about an extra 300m for us from our camp site!) we decide to head down towards the bridge for a little 40min paddle. We are thinking that we might need our bike lights on the way back!
Just after taking this photo I pull up along side Neil but stayed away about 3m and it looked liked Kouta was thinking of doing a repeat of last Saturday - walking on water to get to me! So Neil quickly reprimanded him. tomorrow I might try him with me to see if he settles a bit.
here is me powering home - it is about 6.45pm and I am a little tired and I am really looking forward to my hot shower which is about 300m from our camp site and also it is a very old building with old showers, I would say the original shower block of the 1950's! nevertheless the shower pressure was great!
Tomorrow continuing on with our boot camp and hope to do 2 sessions one in the morning and another in the afternoon.
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