So we've been aboard one week, not the easiest week but far from the hardest too. Of course we have packing and sorting and lots of stuff like that, but meals at the club are good, and I use the showers at the boat yard, pretty good water pressure and enough hot water. Lots of washing machines too.
The kayak paddles well, it's a little fishing kayak, i need to get it out of the water n stuff so i thought a little one would be best, true. It moves through the water beautifully and it's really easy to get it moving, getting on is doable, getting off on the other hand is just so embarrassing.
First day I row to the club marina, and go to the ramp, I thought i'd got to the concrete, all grey and flat, but it was silt, like quicksand, i sunk immediately, lost my shoes and fell on my bum on the concrete once i was out, champion.
Next it tried the kind of jetty thing the marina has for the boats,I'd like to roll off the kayak onto it like a walrus, but it's higher so i have to try to lift myself up, upper body strength is obviously my goal now. People saw me there tying the kayak up then trying to get up, I'm fat and have bad knees so standing is out so I need to kneel and balance to get onto the jetty, instead of just lifting my bum up with strong arms. I was sitting with my legs out in front of me and needed to get them under me to kneel without falling in, not so much fun, but after ten minutes of flailing about I got up and managed to get to work.
We now need to get washing and crap that needs to go to storage there, and stuff from there to here, and more organising, I'm enjoying it, H on the other hand is having a crap because he is pretty sure i'm going to die out here. He may be right, but better to die trying something I love than die in a nursing home bored shitless for most of my old age.
I think yoga and push ups are firmly on my agenda, I really need to walk too, but it's not as nice as the esplanade, maybe I'll drive to the esplanade and the red arrow, their adding yellow and green now too, cool. I've got the Vanilla Moz to sort the bugs too.
Yo ho ho and a bottle of tropical flavoured rum.