Day 2 and Day 13

Day 2 (6/13/2010)
After having such a great time the first day i decided to try going out first thing in the morning before my family and i went to church. Plus i was curious at just how long it would take me to do everything. I was hopeful that, if i could do everything quickly enough, i would have time to go out in the mornings before work. i figured that it should take me about 20 minutes to get to the lake, 10 minutes to unload the kayak, 15 minutes to reload the kayak and about 20 minutes to get to work. add 45 minutes of kayaking and 10 minutes for incidentals and you've got a nice round 2 hours. definitely do-able on the average morning as long as i stuck to the schedule, got up a 6 instead of 7, and showered and stuff the night before.

i also remembered to bring my GPS along. i bought the GPS a few months earlier to use for geocaching, but decided that it would also work great for tracking my kayak outings. i could track my path, distance, speed, etc. i had a little trouble connecting to the satellites at first so i missed the very beginning of my trip, but what i was able to record showed that i had gone about 2.25 miles in about 45 minutes with an average moving speed of about 3mph. i was pretty impressed especially with the fact that i stayed on schedule, confirming the possibility of kayaking before work. sweet!

Day 13
last night we had thunderstorm and tornado warnings. the tornado warnings expired sometime last night, but the thunderstorms were supposed to stick around until this afternoon. i was pretty bummed, figuring i would not get out to the lake this morning. at 6am i rolled out of bed anyway just to check the weather and see... it actually looked fairly nice out. things were wet from the rain the night before, but i t wasn't storming now, so i hit the road. while i was unloading stuff i discovered that i had forgotten my GPS. no biggie, i don't need it, but i do like to have it.

speaking of GPS and geocaching, i have wanted to hide a geocache for a while, i just was never sure where to do it. since i got the kayak i have wanted to hide a cache that was accessible by boat, so today i looked for a spot. back in one of the corners of the lake (where i saw one one the heron yesterday) there are a lot of tree stumps sticking out of the water that i thought might make a great hiding spot.so today i looked for one that would work and i think i found one. now all i have to do is actually get a container and do all the set up. i really don't foresee myself doing that any time soon (time and motivation), but when i do i'll know where to put it.

oh, and the rain didn't hold off for the whole time. about half was around the lake it stated to rain. it was a light rain and only lasted for a few minutes, but i did get pretty wet. luckly it stopped and did not start again until i was almost finished loading up. on the way to work was when it really started to come down. glad i missed that. i mean, who wants to get wet out in the middle of a lake?

i also found my glasses strap. i lost it when we went out for father's day on sunday. i was sure that i had dropped it near where we parked to unload, but didn't have much hope of it actually being there. but to my surprise, it was right there, plain as day. score! i really like that strap.