TOP: Peter actually taking a break from eating to kayak
2nd: Peter's finishing sundae
3rd: A magnificent 3 master sailboat out on Cayuga Lake
BOTTOM: Judy handing off yet another plate of food to Peter, his 5th of the morning...and we hadn't even kayak'd yet.
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This past weekend we went after the 2 largest of the Finger Lakes, Seneca Lake and Cayuga Lake, both roughly 40 miles long. This would be our longest kayak trip yet, and had the potential for the most complex...much rougher water, winds, mid-summer Tstorms, and more complicated logistics. The paddle would be roughly 1/2 of of each lake each of 4 days, and if we were able to get ahead of schedule, we'd throw in the seneca-cayuga canal. That was our stretch goal.
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We had planned on starting early on friday morning, but as luck would have it, my over-50 body failed me again, this time with a hemhorroid the size of a pumpkin developing on thursday. So I had to see the doc on friday morning before we headed off. This delayed our put-in in Watkins Glen on Seneca Lake until nearly 3pm, so most of the day was lost.
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That said, it was a glorious evening to paddle, with the lake absolutely flat, a light tailwind, and only 4 boats seen in our 4 hours of paddling. We got through about 18 miles due to some strong paddling by kathy and judy, and actually ended the day in a pretty good place logistically. We wound down the night at a local ice cream shack, where we had burgers and watched peter empty an entire ice cream vat.
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"Faster than those F1 cars" Lumpy out
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