Kayaking was there in my to-do list for very long. Last year, with Bangalore Adventure Club, I went to Savandurga. And, there I seized this opportunity. It was wonderful experience. I was accompanied with twelve other enthusiastic youngsters including my pal Sukrut. We were ready to experience adrenaline rush through high rope climbing, paint-ball, cave exploration and other activities which was supposed to fall out soon. Now it was turn for kayaking.
We reached lake around 1 pm. It was sunny day. There were only two kayaks available. I was last to go. After observing others for a while, I left place to wander around. When I came back, It was my turn. Honestly, I did not realize how hard it could be until I did kayaking. Foremost, It was appearing piece of cake. I thought, all that we had to do was position our self in cockpit and sail carefully with rowing oar. I did not had extra pair of clothes so I was little worried in case I got wet in water. I gave all my personal belonging to colleagues, and went close to kayak. I still had no fear. Person that was assisting told me not to get scare. That was first time getting scare crossed my mind. I decided to be more careful and took courage and positioned myself very comfortably on boat. Kayak was still firmly held to lakeside.
Kayak was untied. I took a deep breath. To my surprise, Kayak was hell lot sensitive to any of my movement. I was aghast and little scared. I was holding boat paddle with my both hands, and my any slightest movement was making kayak trembling. Thank God, I was already positioned myself very comfortably before them to free boat, so I did not had to re-adjust. Any movement to re-adjusting would have only help kayak to through me in lake. And, I did not want that. So, I kept myself quite for a moment. I realized that I am going to die some day because of my lack of ability to gauge the risk. And I had every reason of getting afraid. This was my very first kayaking and I did not even know swimming that time. Lake was deep and full of formidable creatures of which we had just witnessed water snake. I stayed quite for moment and then got chilled as time passed. I enjoyed every bit of it.
Since then I have done kayaking couple of times and it never stops exciting.
We reached lake around 1 pm. It was sunny day. There were only two kayaks available. I was last to go. After observing others for a while, I left place to wander around. When I came back, It was my turn. Honestly, I did not realize how hard it could be until I did kayaking. Foremost, It was appearing piece of cake. I thought, all that we had to do was position our self in cockpit and sail carefully with rowing oar. I did not had extra pair of clothes so I was little worried in case I got wet in water. I gave all my personal belonging to colleagues, and went close to kayak. I still had no fear. Person that was assisting told me not to get scare. That was first time getting scare crossed my mind. I decided to be more careful and took courage and positioned myself very comfortably on boat. Kayak was still firmly held to lakeside.
Kayak was untied. I took a deep breath. To my surprise, Kayak was hell lot sensitive to any of my movement. I was aghast and little scared. I was holding boat paddle with my both hands, and my any slightest movement was making kayak trembling. Thank God, I was already positioned myself very comfortably before them to free boat, so I did not had to re-adjust. Any movement to re-adjusting would have only help kayak to through me in lake. And, I did not want that. So, I kept myself quite for a moment. I realized that I am going to die some day because of my lack of ability to gauge the risk. And I had every reason of getting afraid. This was my very first kayaking and I did not even know swimming that time. Lake was deep and full of formidable creatures of which we had just witnessed water snake. I stayed quite for moment and then got chilled as time passed. I enjoyed every bit of it.
Since then I have done kayaking couple of times and it never stops exciting.
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