Latest Paddle - 22nd December 08
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- Published on Monday, 22 December 2008 02:42
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Latest Paddle - 22nd December 08
Paddlers - Steve Price
Coles Bay - Schouten Is - 21km - 20knt Northerly
The mission was to take the ski down to Schouten Island for our annual camping trip over Christmas, stash it in the bush and get a lift back on a mates cray boat. I left around 6 so that I could meet up with the boat at 8 otherwise I would be left behind. The wind was well and truely up when I left and started providing nice runs straight away. By the time I reached Hazard Island I was having an absolute ball and was maintaining a really good speed with the GPS regularly hitting 20km/h. The wind was funneling through from Wine Glass Bay making the waves a little more on the rear quater but this didn't really slow me down much and I continued to pick up some solid runs all the way down to Weather Head.
From Weather Head on my progress slowed considerably as I was sheltered from the wind and I started to hit quite a bit of current that was rapidly flowing through Shouten Passage. There was a big swell coming through the passage as well, it would have been great to do a few runs through there as the favourable wind and swell coupled with the strong current would have made for some really good speed. Good paddle, would have been more fun paddling with someone else but the scenery was pretty awesome.
