Tuesday 25 June 2013

the welcoming

It's busy here in Whitehorse.  There is no room at the inn and people are arriving.  Not many places left to put them.  Nancy here at the Beez Kneez is run off her feet and does amazing things to try and find rooms for people.

Yesterday was a relaxing day.  We started off by packing everything into dry bags and then into the boat that was sitting in our back garden.  I then walked out to the DIY store for pipe insulation for the gunnels of the boat and also to lag the pipes of our water systems to keep the water cool (a tip from Joe).

On the way back from the DIY store I went to the Real Canadian Superstore and bought children's sandcastle buckets - we now have pots to P*** in.  I then swang past Kanoe People to pick up the spraydeck and into Coast and Mountain (again) for a small dry bag.

That afternoon we even had visitors, Karla, Steve and Jason (from team Currently Confused...Still) popped in to say hello  - it's great to have friendly faces around.


Monday morning we had another test run and instead of walking the boat all of the way back into town we walked it across the road and got it all set up with the deck on.
Then we were off on another pesky practice run  - only 20km this time and there were more people about.
 t took us a while to find our rhythm - we were rocking a fair bit and it just didn't feel right.
 The scenery was still good though.
 As we reached the end we had hit our pace again and were happy with how the paddling was feeling.

There would be a very lovely photo of Sarah here but E's camera is too old to work with the notebook!!!!
We pulled in to the take out at The Takhini river and unfortunately there was no space in the mini bus leaving so we got to hang around in the sunshine, getting bitten by mosquitos for a while as the other paddlers came in to fill up the bus.

We were soon back in Whitehorse and in to shower, change and out again for the food shop from hell.




The Tower Hamlets Canoe Club contingent at the YRQ Meet & Greet
 Monday evening was the YRQ meet and greet where we got to meet up with some people we didn't already know and some that we did.  On the way we popped to Coast & Mountain (yes again) for Sarah to get a space bivvy bag.
One chocolate and one vanilla moose coming up (for our hallucinations!)

I think all of the racers got the message that if your spot device had not already sent a signal from Whitehorse you were in BIG trouble.
As close to bears as we want to get

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