I smiled reading this today. As a long time sea kayaker doing some small amount of whitewater is really interesting and different. We did a crossover with our kayak club where us sea types took the whitewater crowd out to the Washington coast and shared our playground with them, then they took us on a class 3-4 river to show us their world.
It was such an interesting juxtaposition from one discipline to the other. The sea kayak types found the river invigorating but frightening in ways due to the current never relenting. And the WW types found the continually changing ocean conditions a little baffling.
I smiled reading this today. As a long time sea kayaker doing some small amount of whitewater is really interesting and different. We did a crossover with our kayak club where us sea types took the whitewater crowd out to the Washington coast and shared our playground with them, then they took us on a class 3-4 river to show us their world.
It was such an interesting juxtaposition from one discipline to the other. The sea kayak types found the river invigorating but frightening in ways due to the current never relenting. And the WW types found the continually changing ocean conditions a little baffling.
Thanks for sharing!
Yes this exactly! I'm also so used to bracing into a wave while surfing that the idea of edging downstream when turning feels really counterintuitive!
Agreed! I'm primarily a sea kayaker but I dabble in whitewater. It is a different perspective on the water and it's fun to see a new kind of scenery.
I hope it was a good run too!
It was :)