Over Veteran’s Day Weekend my husband and I trekked to Southern Utah, specifically a place just outside of St. George and right around Zion National Park called Sand Hollow State Park. Sand Hollow boasts great bass fishing in its Sand Hollow Reservoir and (as we found out) lots of 4-wheeler riding on the sand dunes around the Sandpit Campground, which is where we camped.
We went for my husband to fish. Oh right, and me too, kind of. I’ve been in a kayak once before this time. It was a goofy kind of thing a friend and I did with one of those two-person kayaks. It was nothing like kayaking around a lake while also attempting to fish, drink water, eat, and generally spend about three to four hours of an afternoon. On a lake. In a kayak.
The number one thing to know is this: I managed to launch my kayak into the water, paddle around a lake, and get myself back onto the shoreline – TWICE! Honestly, just the act of doing those basic things was a big win for me. You see, when you first start kayaking, you think it’s like this:
But then, when you’re out in the middle of the lake and paddling to the boat ramp and you think you may be having an anxiety attack because some speed boat went by and created all these waves, it’s more like this:
Except, ya know, I’m saying it in my head exasperated while slapping my paddle into the water just gazing at the shoreline that seems to not be getting any closer. I staved off this feeling and did make it.
This is what I did most of the time in the kayak anyway…
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