Watery adventures

A couple more pictures from our kayak jaunt a few weeks ago. This was up at the lake at North Park, a nice quiet, shallow, low-current spot to try out paddling before going out on a bigger body of water or dodging coal barges on the Allegheny. The week before we rented a pontoon boat for Ashley's Dad's birthday, and that was a lot of fun too, if not as much exercise. Amanda might have those pictures and I'll see about getting them.

I told the nice Kayak Pittsburgh folks that I had been kayaking before, so they gave me a slightly narrower, tippier, faster boat than Ashley. As you can see, it didn't exactly slow her down.

We got into the muddy shallows at one end of the lake and it was a bit more like polling than paddling. This is where the catfish lived, the ones that we literally ran over.

We both had a great time, and the only disappointment was that Otto didn't come with us. Since then we have been checking out the prices for canoes, and we may soon be making a little investment in summer fun. I especially like the idea of, and Ashley is only slightly apprehensive about, going up to the bigger lake at Moraine Lake State Park, paddling across with a boat load of stuff and camping on the other side at one of the fancy campsites. A nice compromise, I think, between self powered backpacking style camping, and comfy cooler-full-of-food and showers-in-the-morning car camping. We'll keep you posted.