Eastport and Kayaks--Rockin on land and water

Pictures from Eastport-a-Rockin 2006


I love the water—that’s no big secret. Sailing is amazing but without owning a boat or having a lot of friends who own boats—it can get a little pricey and not always practical.

In keeping with my love of water, I tried kayaking this weekend and I have to say that kayaking rocks! You don’t get the speed you get with a sailboat but you are much closer to the water so you feel everything, you’re more maneuverable and with practice you can do fun things like kayak white water. And how cool would that be?

Of course, I also had good friend which makes kayaking that much more fun. In this case, he also helped keep the (dbl)kayak stable—something I didn’t know until I went out by myself today and realized just how wobbly I was on the water when left to my own devices.

NOTE: This is not me in the picture. These people are what?Twenty-five?
After kayaking, we went to the Eastport-a-Rocking music festival. Local bands, good beer, and interesting drunk people. One man kept saying “yes!” to people as they passed. Not sure if he meant ‘yes’ to them or ‘yes’ to their beer, but whatever it was—he was very upbeat about it.

What I truly liked about the festival though was the array of people and that all were having a great time. Age, income, etc nothing seemed to make a difference in attitude. All simply wanted to drink beer, listen to great local bands and dance.