I needed to go and explore today, and I had planned on joining the Sea Canoeing Club’s Trip out to Vensitat Point from Verona Sands, but it just didn;t happen, so I headed down there anyway and explored an area I’ve been meaning to get to for ages – namely to see how far up Garden Island Creek I could get, as well as have an explore around Randalls Bay.
Not much to say about the day really, the weather was perfect – flat and cool with a clear sky. I saw a few other paddlers out and about, and I did reach my goal of paddling up under the bridge on the rivulet (though got a few scratches on the bottom of my boat for the trouble).
Lots of birds around, and it was just a wonderful day. Shame about my camera, it really doesn’t capture the wonder odf the day.
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| Setting off from Verona Sands Beach |
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| Huon Island in the distance. |
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| Travelling up Garden Island Creek. |
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| As far as I can go. About 15 metres up stream from the bridge. |
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| Paddling through Randalls Bay |
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| Very smelly boat at Randalls Bay |
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| Randalls Bay |
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| Randalls Bay Cliffs |
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| Sunken Boat at Eggs and Bacon Bay |
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| View towards Bruny Island in the Distance (Return leg) |
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| Back at Verona Sands |
All up it was about a 3 hour, 20km paddle. I did a lot of ducking in and out of the shoreline (if you look carefully at the GPS it actually looks like I was paddling across the land in places as I cut in within metres of the shoreline).
It was an easy/medium effort as I have a race coming up tomorrow. A lovely paddle.
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