SUP - Stuff I See

Day 1 - SUP stuff i see

Entry 1.
Canal. Nice day weather wise. Think its Tuesday

These will be true and chronological to my SUP journey on given day

Boozy doo!?:
An empty beer bottle bobs gently. Its upside down. One of those (Aussie accent) 'little Stubby' types.
- why doesn't it sink?
- why is it seemingly lodged, immovable in the canal?
......i move on

Wood, trees, vegetation:
ooooh - (left hand side) where have the phalanx of trees from the garden with the green bench gone?

Probs cleared out for cattle ranching no doubt! Well, not on MY watch buster!
At this point I'm slaloming around the woody debris like Alberto frickin Tomba. Alberto Tomba....is he dead?
Anyway....

Family outing:
Uh oh. Noise from over my right shoulder, from the canal path. People. My internal monologue kicks in 'look cool, be cool...c'mon millsy'

hmmmm, family of cyclists. Eek, they are starting a conversation from the canal toe path!

Lad of 7? : 'Hiya'
Me: Hiya (you've got to reciprocate even if you are really concentrating) 

Lad: Is that Hard?
Me: No, not really. It gets tiring on the arms depending how far you go

Lad: How far you goin?
Me: Coupla Miles maybe
Lad: Woah!!!

Impressing a 7 year old is easy right? Don't care, confidence boosted. Onward

More toe path/cycle family interaction:
At this point as i'm steady they are overlapping me time and again - as they speed up and slow down. Father of family is chirping away, giving dad type useless advise to his charges (i'm ace at that)

Lad: Hi again. Are you a professional?

*Sarcasm check*.....its clean i reckon

Me: No,  (laughing) do i look it?
Lad and Mum: Yea!

Chest set firmly to puffed out. On i go

Flappy chappies:
What seems like 600 plus ducks are waddling away hurriedly in a farmer's field. Its probably only 20 odd of the feathery little fellas. But they move so impressively en mass, makes it seem like more. They are - presumably - scared off by this professional looking SUP geezer!

Turning for home now. Just retracing really.......

- why is that stick floating so obvious and vertical? Looks weird

- That cow is stood in the canal. Bit mingin

- what snack shall i shove in my face when i get back to millsy towers?

- ooh, black blob in the water. Sea creature? Give it an oar nudge.

ah well, onward....

Return, return. Slide, scrabble up.

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