The Continued Adventure

We are speaking at the Great Outdoor Provision Company tonight at 7 pm. They sponsored us for our kayak trip in a lot of ways and its going to be fun!

Tonight! March 1st at 7:00 PM We are giving a presentation about our East Coast Trip to the Carolina Kayak Club. The meeting is open to the public and located at 649 Walnut Street in Cary (Business networking center in Cary).

Or just look at this link: http://tinyurl.com/yk8yg8r

If you are tired of hearing the bits and pieces and want the full rundown you come check it out.

Hope to see you there!

It seems like it has been raining non stop for the past month or so and this lead to some great local high water paddles and now that the rains have let up a little the Army Corp of Engineers decided it was time to release from the Dam.

The wave at the Dam is a little intimidating at higher flows. Since mortals are unable to attain to the wave at these flows, the most conveniant way to reach the wave is to seal launch from a rock directly into the “little” hole at the top of the rapid, ferry across, then drop right into the big one.

Setting up to Seal Launch (Don’t you love my color coordination… I do but actually i love my IR Double D Drysuit more):

Surfing the top hole to get into the middle:
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Dropping in:

We are surfing now!

The wave really surges…

I have yet to really figure out the wave at this level. Maybe someday I will lay down the law and really be able to play on it.

If you are around the Raleigh Area check out this weeks edition of the Wake Weekly. It has a nice article about Bethany and I.

Or you can view it online here

I think that picture looks familiar…

Bethany and I will also be giving a talk at the Great Outdoor Provision Co. in Cameron Village on March 10th @ 7:00

We should have a little more time at this one so come out and hear the story. GOPC is a great gear store if you need anything to… They definitely helped us with our gear!

More info here:http://greatoutdoorprovision.com/blog/

This shot was taken in Kittery Maine… You can see the Tent they gave us right above the otter box (Yes we were camping in a yard).

Monday March 1st at 7:00 PM Bethany and I will be giving a presentation about our East Coast Trip to the Carolina Kayak Club. The meeting is open to the public and located at 649 Walnut Street in Cary (Business networking center in Cary).

Or just look at this link: http://tinyurl.com/yk8yg8r

If you are tired of hearing the bits and pieces and want the full rundown you come check it out. The presentation will probably be about 30 mintues and some time for Q and A.

Stay tuned for more dates and places where you can here the story.

d&b

We have been snowed in for two days now and are going a little crazy! Well I say snowed in, we probably got about 5 inches of snow… Not snowed in by Maine standards but snowed in by our southern Standards. Just in case you did not know we kayaked into Portland Maine and decided to live there last winter and this weekend is definitely giving us flashbacks!

Here is a little video from last winter in Maine.

And a photo from NC (yes this is North Carolina folks!)

Now the real reason I am typing here… I just wanted to let you guys know to keep checking back to the site because we should have pictures up in a few weeks, as well as times/places were you can check out a presentation about our Maine to Key West trip!

d&b

For YEARS now the city of Raleigh has been mulling over the idea of putting a whitewater park right below falls dam on the Neuse River. Currently there is a good wave (as soon below) and a few small rapids below the bridge. So a few years ago a bond passes and allocates 350,000 dollars towards the project. One study was done but nothing was determined. Another study is in the works: Please sign this to help us get a park…

http://www.petitiononline.com/fallswwp/petition.html

Maybe we can even get Bethany to join in if we get a park

So the Raleigh Parks and Recreation Adventure Program (who Bethany and I conveniently work for) has a pool session every Friday night at a local pool.

Its a great place to work on flatwater moves as well as rolling. My little brother Stephen and I paddled around a took a few photos last friday.

The underwater wave goodbye!