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Originally uploaded by Suffering the Benz
I paddled over to Prater Flats before sunrise today under clear skies and a waxing moon. We’ve been getting phenomenal fall weather. It’s in the upper ’50s before sunrise.
I tend to hug the shore because you see more that way, and I was moving at a pretty good clip when I ran aground hard. I was sitting atop a giant boulder that was just barely beneath the surface. I can’t believe I didn’t dump the kayak and it proved the hull is pretty strong. I felt it bend when I hit the rock, but there was no damage. I rocked and paddled backward till I managed to get loose.
I spun my kayak around to shoot this photo as I returned to the main channel. It probably was about 6 or 7 miles roundtrip given all the drifting around I did in coves back there.