I enjoyed kayaking when we lived in Florida, but I haven’t done much of that since moving to Virginia. So recently I got myself a new kayak (more on that in a bit), and hope to use it a lot more in the near future! Today I loaded it up for a wander to Pocahontas State Park in Chesterfield VA, about 20 minutes from home. I hit the waters of Swift Creek Lake for a lovely morning paddle. Come along!
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The new kayak is an Evoke Trophy 126–I’m pretty sure this is a rebranding of the Future Beach Angler 126. It’s a 10.5-foot sit-in fishing kayak–I don’t fish, but I liked everything else about it, so I picked it up. For a relatively low-end (read: cheap) kayak, so far I’m really loving it. It’s pretty lightweight, and a dream to paddle–pretty speedy, very stable, and it tracks very well. Tracking is the real drawback of my sit-on-top kayak, a Sundolphin Bali 10–that thing veers off every time I stop paddling. I wanted a sit-in this time so I can take it on the rivers around here–I’ll work up to that, though!
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This osprey shot ALMOST makes up for me totally missing the bald eagle that flew over my head. I was shooting with my 16mm lens at the time, and had no time to swap over to a longer lens!
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That was a really nice outing–and I overuse the word “nice” most egregiously in the video, sorry about that. Thanks for coming along!