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Kayak Practice

Sunday we went to Puyo Pools after church. They have built a nice new water park, with a wave pool, and two big slides. It's very impressive, and today was my first time there. I took some photos, and I'll have to get a couple of them up on the web site. After that, Dustin and I took the kayaks up to the dique, the little swimming hole on the Rio Tigre in Mera. It's a good place for us to practice a few strokes and our rolls. Dustin is finally able to roll the boat consistantly. Next is for us to be able to roll when we are in rapids and get flipped over.

We were on the Misahuali a couple weeks ago, and when I flipped over in white water, I had to do a wet water exit. I even blew it in that I let go of my paddle, something you should never do. Something about being upside down in a kayak--you forget to think about anything but air! We are slowly learning. Saturday we went on a two-hour round trip over to the upper Rio Anzu, to see if that river was anything we could practice on. It turned out that it wasn't very big at all, and there are a couple places much closer to home that we can use.