Kayak Race Results

Start of the race at Long Beach Simons Town

Name	Time	Av speed kph	% of winner
LONG COURSE - 11.7 km
KAYAKS
Derek Goldman	01:12:27	9.7	100%
Ryno Lamont	01:13:26	9.6	101%
Mark Webb	01:17:00	9.1	106%
Basil Thomas	01:19:38	8.8	110%
Anton Kryshaar	01:23:49	8.4	116%
Chris Kruyshaar	01:25:07	8.2	117%
Paul Weber	01:26:04	8.2	119%
Hendrik vd Heever	01:26:57	8.1	120%
Mike van Huysen	01:28:19	7.9	122%
Rob Hewitson	01:29:10	7.9	123%
John Laurence	01:31:29	7.7	126%
Paul Whitmill	01:37:28	7.2	135%
Geordie Kohler (Rowing)	01:40:15	7.0	138%
Willy Steenkamp	01:52:03	6.3	155%
Emile Kruger & Partner	01:22:32	8.5	114%
Jurgen Briegel & Partner	01:50:33	6.4	153%
WOMEN
Viv van der Heyden	01:45:29	6.7	100%
SURFSKIS
Andrew Turner	01:01:45	11.4	100%
Mark Beck	01:02:47	11.2	102%
Paul Jenkins	01:03:04	11.1	102%
Mike Van Wieringen	01:17:12	9.1	125%
Mark Coram  (Surfski)	01:17:19	9.1	125%
Wayne Coram  (Surfski)	01:19:20	8.8	128%
WOMEN
Kim Kruyshaar	01:29:31	7.8	100%
SHORT COURSE - 6.3 km
KAYAKS
Christo van Schalkwyk	00:49:25	7.6	100%
Dermot Magowan	00:49:29	7.6	100%
Sean Burr	00:50:07	7.5	101%
Marco Schiess	00:50:44	7.5	103%
Roger Steven-Jennings	00:56:28	6.7	114%
Sandy McLea	00:59:46	6.3	121%
Bart McLea	01:00:19	6.3	122%
David Kohler (Rowing)	01:14:03	5.1	150%
Ian Lints & Roger Creswell	00:50:10	7.5	102%
SURFSKIS
Andre/ClaireLaure  (Double ski)	00:37:44	10.0	100%
Andrew D'Legg  (Surfski)	00:48:08	7.9	128%
Paul Lotter  (Surfski)	00:52:12	7.2	138%
Barbara Calothi  (Surfski)	00:56:49	6.7	151%

More animal encounters

I have had two separate interesting encounters in the last week.

The first was near Boulders penguin beach with these harmless sharks:

And then this cormorant decided to use me as a taxi:

How good is Google Earth?

When Google Earth first came out I was gobsmacked (I was also awestruck but awesome is such an overused word) but heck it is an awesome program - and it's free! People use it all the time now when planning hikes and paddles, two guys paddled the length of the Orange River and collaged together the whole river from Google Earth printouts to help them plan.

Then came Google Street View and people tried to get themselves into these shots or if they were lucky/unlucky were in them anyway. Here's the street view of our jetty where regulars will recognise the blurs that are the card guard and vendors who work there.

Now I imagine few people can say they that they are visible in Google Earth but I am! - well anyway I recognise the smudge that is me but nobody else would! Below is the wide shot of the jetty and yacht club and further below are the blow-ups of the marked rectangles.

The yellow circles highlight two of the white double kayaks we take day trippers on, seen in the top picture, and in the red circle is me leading the group back.

But the point here is not to boast and this post is really all about this last picture.

Behind the kayak you can see some circles which is movement from the paddle strokes in the water! Now that I think is awesome!! And that the use of all these exclamation marks is fully justified!

Another lousy winter day in Cape Town - not :)

We have had some magnificent winter days here in False Bay and here are some pictures taken on four of them. Click on the pics to enlarge.

Chose not go paddling this day of 20 foot swells and instead went to take
pics of the surfers near Cape Point

...and a Southern Right Whale popped up to check them out

Buffels Bay to Simon's Town - Sunday 12th June

The forecast as of today, Wednesday, for this Sunday is pretty good so the trip is currently on.

This Sunday we plan to be paddling from Buffels Bay in the reserve to Simon's Town. Meet outside the shop at 8.30am to arrange a car pool.