Southwest Kayak Symposium

With my name on the symposium schedule and flights booked there was no way to 'bail out' of my second attendance at the Aqua Adventures Southwest Kayak Symposium.

Although I would have a BIG excuse to change all plans for this season. Jen Kleck sure kept me busy to have my mind off things... Arriving Wednesday night she had me and Fiona running a BCU 4* on the Thursday. Then an Incident Management class on Friday.

Although a little less surf mayhem than the year before, we still had the occasional capsize and a mysteriously disconnecting tow-line. A rock landing on the Mission Bay breakwater proved to be more difficult than anticipated (and interesting to watch for Fiona and me). The incident management day even made it into a California Kayak Friends e-mail exchange; about the best way to tow a sea kayak through surf. Thank you Henk for sending the e-mails regarding this.

Anyway, I very much enjoyed the symposium. Saturday evening camp fire was magical with Steve Wilson, Nigel Foster and Russell Farrow playing guitar and singing and Brent Reitz playing the harmonica (a whole range of them in fact). Fireworks along the way (courtesy of the nearby Sea World). And according to the jamming all along (the watchtower), a new kayak symposium song is in the making.

View the video clip of "Kayak Symposium on Mission Bay" by Steve Wilson.

Friday 30 March 2007 (Incident Management)

Saturday 31 March (Kayak Symposium at Mission Bay)

Sunday 1 April 2007 (Kayak Symposium at Mission Bay)

Saturday 7 April 2007 (Mission Bay)

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