Theory of convenience

Boats lined up and ready to go, we're destined for the headland in the distance.

One definition of convenience relates to personal comfort. The flip side of that is inconvenience. There's no question about it, I'd prefer to do something that's convenient. But, this time of year if ya want to paddle in Newfoundland there's going to be an element of inconvenience. The inconvenience of paddling this time of year is cleaning the salt off of the boat and the equipment. Burr!

I hadn't been able to paddle in almost 2 weeks so the need to paddle outweighted the inconvenience. Today Stan and myself paddled from Holyrood to Chapel Cove and turned around at the entrance to Harbour Main harbour. Stan was on call and this was as far as we could venture. The air temp was right at 0 C and the water temp is still at 1 C. Calm water with little wind, a perfect day to be on the water in January.

We did a little rock hopping and at one point I got surprised by a few waves that came out of nowhere. A sideways surf, a hard brace onto a second wave, still going sideways laying full out on the water and seal landed on a ledge. I managed to get the boat pointed into the direction of the next incoming wave, pushed off and escaped. Wished I could have read Stan's mind as he looked on!

A few pictures which will post above this entry as I should have posted those first. Learn for next time. Overall another great day on the water thanks to Stan.

Tony :-)