I often tell people that if they get too playful when we’re kayaking, and forget to take the traffic in the city seriously, but on these photos, taken at 7.30 in the morning at a very low tide, it does look like I’m wrong.
Its very hard doing justice to the experience of paddling down the Canal Grande after dark, with only a cheap point-and-shoot camera, but I’m not going to bring my SLR in a kayak.
Or maybe just a contender.
Sea Kayak Design is an Italian kayak brand, well designed and well built. Venice Kayak has three of them, one of each of the original three models. The one on the photos is the 16ft model.
Getting ready for a tour, controlling the essential gear.
On the Certosa island, car free but with kayaks.
Hanging out on the beach with the chicks, sporting a pair of Raybans for that cool, in control look.
you can pass.
Sandolo passing under the church of Santo Stefano in Venice at high tide.
We spent a day in the mountains on Sunday, for a walk up to one of the refuges, on a rather grey and sometimes rainy day. The clouds were beautiful, though.
More photos after the fold.
Danish by birth, historian by education, paddler by passion and incurable italophile.
Venice Kayak is currently where I put most of my effort, trying to start a kayak business in the fabulous city of Venice.
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