Gliding along the canal

When I received the call from RAHC that I was accepted for a NT placement, I was seated at "19 Squares" sipping a latte and chatting to a local. Ken had overhead my conversation, introduced his interest in visiting the NT, and spontaneously began to converse about his recent trip to Argentina and the wooden kayak he was building. Within moments we had synchronised a description of kayaking through Elwood canal and into the ocean, and surreptitiously discovered a potential kayaking buddy.

I have just returned from a sea kayak in Elwood and St Kilda in Ken's hand made wooden kayak. Below are some of my impressions:

Gliding across the canal and under the bridges was mesmerising.
I felt like I was being courted in a Venetian gondola.
The rhythm of the kayak caressing the water was sensual.
Sunlight weaved through the gaps in the wooden bridge and gleaned across dark shades of gently rippling water.

Rare silence in the middle of a Summer's day.
The finely tuned sound of water droplets trickling from the oar.
It reminded me of kayaking on the Arno in Firenze.

After the kayak we chatted with locals that had gathered by the edge of canal before walking through the tree lined and sunlit streets of Elwood to St Kilda for a latte at "19 squares".