Urban Kayaking - August 27, 2000

It was a Sunday with not much to do so I figured I'd join the Cascade Orienteering Club's Canoe-O race.  I was sort of hoping to smoke the competition by paddling a sea kayak instead of a canoe.  I was in turn smoked by someone paddling a windsurfer sans sail and then again by a particularly energetic couple in a canoe.  I came in third.

Photo of me at one of the controls stolen from COC's web page.
 

The course didn't take long so I figured I'd paddle about.  I ended up circumnavigating Lake Union and going all the way to the locks and back.
 

I hadn't planned for a full day of kayaking and didn't bring any lunch.  Fortunately I found some blackberries growing out over the water.