The last Sunday I when kayaking with a bunch of other guys geocaching. We were after the “Release the Kraken” series along the Patuxent River. We were doomed. The river was racing towards the Chesapeake Bay at about ±15 mph and the water was high enough that not only was there no embankments, but the floating dock was almost as high up on the piering as it could go.. At the launch site the river was about 100’ across and the river was full of stumps and fallen trees. As a group most of us thought that would make it breeze heading downstream (though I was the only one with a fully developed frontal lobe, I bent to peer pressure). ¡NOT!
We not only discovered that like the word kayak (a palindrome) works fine both ways. Also like the word ʞɐʎɐʞ, kayaks don’t do well ndsıpǝ pʍou. Sixty percent of our team, including me, got a taste of the muddy river. Just as aside, at eight pounds a gallon (not including the dirt), do you know how much a kayak weight when it’s full of water? All I know is that it’s very heavy.