Friday we bought 3 kayaks you can check them out here
http://oceankayak.com Bobby's is the Prowler 13 (sky blue), Nicholas' is the Caper (blue) and mine is the Drifter (sunrise/sunset).
We put Nicholas in the pool with his yesterday so he could get the feel of it and he did very good, a little hesitant but good. Then Nicholas and I tried out our life vests (Nick wasn't sure if it would keep him floating or not) so I told him we would both do something we have NEVER done, JUMP IN THE DEEP END OF OUR POOL (approx. 8 ft deep) and we did it, and we floated back up to the top...alright yes .... it was a little scary but we did it!!!! So Bobby wanted to take us to the Dunedin Causeway that leads over to Honeymoon Island to take a spin on our Kayaks, in my mind I'm thinking TOO MUCH TOO SOON!! So I put on my brave face while looking at my 8 year olds afraid face and told him it will be fun and he will do just fine.
So we load up the kayaks, they are rather bulky and heavy, onto the top of our Aztek and took off on our adventure. We got there and unloaded and I said I would go in first, then Nick then Bobby. I got in and you know there were WAVES, not big ones but just big enough to rock your kayak!! Next comes Nicholas into his and the look on his face was shear fear. So I grabbed a hold of his kayak and we just sat there while Bobby got in his. And we sat while Bobby boated around and then I noticed we were drifting and
FAST all of the sudden we were out near the buoys,
FAR from the shore and I'm still holding onto Nicks kayak, I will admit ALOT of panic set in and I yelled and cussed at Bobby (sorry Honey it was the PANIC talking) to get over to us ASAP!!! I turned to Nicholas and said I will aim you in the direction of the beach and you will HAVE TO START PADDLEING. I let go of his kayak (a really hard thing to do b/c of the look on his face) and we started towards the beach and we made it! I jumped off of mine and then Nick came in he jumped off of his, then Bobby came in. I looked at Bobby and said "OK we did it, now lets load up and go home." He looked at me and said that was only 5 minutes, we are going back out there. So we did. and we did better and we went farther and we enjoyed it, Nicholas got a little scared but recovered. After getting back to the beach again we rested and then loaded up and went home. WHEW..... WE ARE TIRED!!!
