Kayak | Saturday, June 21, 2008 |
Recently we have had rain nearly every day and last weekend was no exception. Simon and I were off in the rain and wind to join others from our exercise class kayaking on lake Narrabeen on Sunday morning.
Having killed my small camera, the Canon IXUS 700 last week I took the Olympus C-5060 on the kayaking trip, wrapped up carefully against the wet.
It was raining heavily some of the time and my pictures are if anything improved by the water on the lens. The skies cleared at various points and we paddled up a couple of streams which feed the saltwater lake.
Simon and I nearly won the race back across the lake to our starting point and he enjoyed it so much that we are now booked on another kayaking trip up the Hawkesbury at Berowra Waters.
I had tucked the camera up under my jumper while racing but had failed to put the strap around my neck and when I leapt out of the kayak it went straight into the salt water and no longer functions at all. The next camera I buy will be waterproof.
