After school finished we hopped in the car and headed up to Te Mahia which is on the Queen Charlotte peninsula for my cousin Thomas’ wedding to Adeline. It’s a beautiful spot, only recently enough reopened after some serious slips and landslides from rains a few years ago.
It was a lovely wedding and a super spot to just enjoy hanging out in. The weather was very kind, so lots of swimming and even went for a paddle. Well, that was one thing, we (Thomas Adeline and I) went out for a paddle for an hour on sit-on-top kayaks. I was finding it really tough going, which really annoyed me as I’ve done a bit of paddling over the years here, and yeah, thought I should be doing better. Then about 40 minutes into the paddle, while we were heading back I just couldn’t stop myself from capsizing! Super embarrassing. Managed to re-right it & get back in (harder than you’d think it would be) only to promptly capsize again. Eventually had to just swim & push the kayak back to shore. Once on land I was pulling the (heavy) boat up, and just emptying the surface water out, and then realised that the boat was full of water. The bung at the back (why it even had one I dunno, being just a sit-on-top) had never been in there, so, the boat had just filled with water. We laughed about it, but, obviously we told the staff and they really do have a duty-of-care there. If that had been a single (inexperienced) person out there it could have been a different story.
Anyway, a lovely wedding – congratulations to Thomas & Adeline – they make a very lovely couple.
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