We collected our two man kayaks early yesterday morning and set out on the open seas under blue skys. Less than five minuets later it was pissing it down with heavy rain..!
It felt like a real wilderness adventure, secretly I loved it. With the rain and spray in our faces we dug deep and pushed on. Sailing past amazing rock formations, cliff faces and green forest.
We stopped at twoish for a break on a beach and miraculously the clouds parted and the sun shone just long enough for us to dry all our clothes on a fence nearby. We had our cheese sandwiches and off we went.
A few hours of leasurely kayaking later and we arrived at bark bay. After setting up camp we joined the other campers for a really fun night around the fire.
I tried to chop some wood with a big axe. It's actually a lot harder than it looks! I was terrified of chopping into one of my feet if I missed the log! Joe stepped up with no fear, hit the side of the log and nearly knocked his own block off as a piece of wood came flying out at him.
Late at night, under cover of darkness we followed a young kiwi couple into the woods in search of glow worms. As we passed other campers word spread of our expedition and we ended up with nearly the whole site in our convoy.
This morning we woke a little late, 10am. We spent a lot of time deciding wether to go to the marine reserve or to just kayak slowly back south. After two minuets Jana and I realised our arms were actually really tired, but how to tell the others we didn't want to go to the marine reserve without looking puniy and pathetic..?
We took the weakling option but luckily they felt the same. We kayaked through the amazing weather, the water like a mill pond. Stopped at a secluded beach where Joe and I tried to do some circus gymnastics. We then hopped back on the water and around Adele Island where we found a mummy seal sunning herself on the rocks while her four pups frolicked in the water around our kayaks. I was very jelouse that one actually climbed on a French couples kayak near us.
It got a lot less fun after the amazing seal experiance.
The wind picked right up and Jana and I had to really battle head on against the wind all the way back to port. It was soo windy at one point we needed to paddle hard ten strokes just to move a foot!
Eventually we got back. But Joe and Charlie didn't! They went to the wrong beach so we had to wait to cheer them in.
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