SATURDAY MORNING FITNESS

It's $5.00 for the session and it certainly offers the opportunity to have some fun and also to develop essential skills particularly if you are looking at taking on the 2012 Avon Descent.
So come on, take the time and make the effort to join us.
Where: Sandy Beach Reserve
Time: 7.15am for 7.30am start
Cost: $5.00

You need to have your own kayak, paddle and PFD.

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Monday Night Training with T2

Hinds Reserve, Garratt Road.
All paddlers now need a light as well as a PFD.
Some paddlers don't like wearing a PFD but it is important to wear one at this session.
If you are not willing to wear a PFD and a light, please don't come along.
Hinds Reserve, Near Garratt Road Bridge, Bayswater.
Time 5.45pm
PFD must be worn and Lights are essential

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Basic Skills Course

The course covers - safety, forward and reverse paddling, emergency stop, sweep (turning) and draw strokes, a basic support stroke and a capsize drill.
This is a fun day kayaking and an opportunity to meet other people.
Cost: $90.00 inc. GST and Craft ...$70.00 inc GST with own craft
Duration: 3 hours
Time: 9.00am - 12.00pm
Venue: TBA
Dates: Sunday - May 27th

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Avon Descent Information Night

This lecture is aimed at paddlers entering the Avon Descent for the first time.
Date: Monday June 11th
Time: 7.00pm
Venue: Unit 3, 516 Guildford Road, Bayswater
Cost: $5.00

Ultimate Propel Pedal

The ingeniously designed Propel Pedal Drive turns your Ultimate 12 into one highly functional craft, forwards or backwards. With the factory installed rudder, you can cover water hands-free, steering with the adjustment at your fingertips. Use the precise control to stay over good fishing structure, approach a wary photo subject or back into a duck blind.

Performance Promise
Stable ride sitting or standing
Can pedal in reverse
Comfortable support for rear end and lower back
Ideal for flat water and slow rivers
Tons of available accessories

The amazing stability of the Tunnel Hull comes without compromising other key performance attributes like speed and maneuverability. Additionally, the concave wells inside the boat let your feet ride lower than your torso. All told, you can stand with confidence, sit with less fatigue and maneuver like a pro. For all-around performance, the Tunnel Hull stands alone.

Propel Pedal Drive System is ingeniously designed and feature-laden. You can pedal in reverse which is invaluable for fishing, docking and photography. It easily tilts out of the water and out of the way on the bow when you'd rather paddle or pole. Sealed against sand and grit and made from marine grade aluminum and stainless steel, Propel is built to perform in fresh or salt water. Minimum maintenance required

Length: 12' 1" / 368 cm

Width: 30" / 76 cm

Depth @ Beam: 12" / 30 cm

Weight: 55 lbs / 25 kg

Capacity: 350 lbs / 159 kg

List Price: $2900.00

SPECIAL $2300.00 a fantastic bargain

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Scupper Dive

The Scupper Dive, has a moulded-in tank well and a bow hatch, which provides below-deck storage. The Scupper Dive is a big favourite for fishing and divers alike but can still be used for general paddling.

Applications include, Diving, fishing, touring, camping, nature watching, fitness, short and long distance paddling and surfing.

Features include, Open cockpit, moulded-in seat well and foot wells, large bow storage hatch, self-bailing scupper holes, bow and stern carrying handles, threaded drain plug, multiple accessory eyelets, adjustable gear straps, moulded-in cup holder and durable, linear polyethylene construction with moulded-in graphics.

Colour: Yellow

Length: 4.54m
Width: 66cm
Height: 34cm
Weight: 27kgs

ONE ONLY (NO RUDDER) - SPECIAL $800.00

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Spirit PRS Special $999.90

New - but it has No Venturi

We also have other PRS on special

We also have the Avon Descent PRS 40th Anniversary Ski

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Check out our new web site
www.canoeingdownunder.com.au

MORE SPECIALS

Go here just to see some of our specials -
many of the kayaks being reduced as much as $350.00 to $1000.00

http://www.canoeingdownunder.com.au/index.php?option=com_virtuemart&page=shop.browse&category_id=57&Itemid=30

Several of our demo boats are being sold due to limited room in our new premises

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My Journey Continues

I keep meeting people on the river and here in the pink & teal Gecko is Jenelle Winnett, in the yellow and orange Gecko is Mary Ann Winnett, and in the yellow Ecobezhig is Raquel Spencer.

Can you believe this is a real duck? It is so colourful and perfect

Australian Shelduck, Lilac Hill, Guildford (Photo Terry)

The Australian Shelduck is a large, brightly coloured duck with a small head and bill. The male head and neck are black, tinged green, with a white neck ring and occasionally a white ring around the base of the bill. The upper parts are mainly black, while the underparts are dark brown with a cinnamon breast. White upperwing coverts form a white shoulder patch. The wings are black and deep chestnut with a large green speculum (window in wing). The female has a white eye-ring and a chestnut breast. This species is also known as the Chestnut-breasted Shelduck, Mountain Duck and Sheldrake.

White Cockatoos number in their thousands around the Bassendean, Guildford, Midland area.

White Cockatoos having a feast of something along the riverbank

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Monday Nights
by Murray Corp

Respect. Such a simple ideology, but sadly missing in much of society. But more of that later.
It had taken me a month to return to Monday night's fitness training with T2. I couldn't get the vision out of my head of him paddling his kayak with one blade, canoe style, and easing away from me as I paddled with the usual two blades. I'd wake in the night screaming "Go, go, go... No, no, no."

Monday night saw a huge number of paddlers line up for the hour or so of hard paddling. Paddling around the island upstream from Garrett Rd, I kept my distance from the others who like to jockey for position and subsequently churn up a whole lot of wash.

The next paddle, up to the next marker-post saw me again caught in the wash of faster starters, but I thought I was doing quite well until a ski appeared out of the blue (or inky black, to be more accurate) and crossed right in front of me before the paddler capsized. No amount of frantic backwards-paddling stopped me from ramming him amidships. (I like throwing these nautical terms into my stories). Luckily I stayed upright and managed to join the others who by then had left me far behind, with T2 urging me to greater and greater feats of speed and endurance.

Being a fast learner, I decided that on the next paddle, I'd start clear of the pack and enjoy clear water on my way to the next marker-post. This plan worked moderately well until I realized I was heading towards the front of the main pack. I had Rob on my right and we were doing an anticlockwise turn. I decided to round the post as tightly as possible to give him a chance to get around quickly, but didn't quite count on what was coming behind me.

Before I knew what was happening I was being banged on all sides. I received more bangs than you'd find at Langtree's when the fleet's in port! I was crowded out to such an extent that I couldn't even get my paddle in the water. "How rude"! I yelled, as if anyone cared.

Which brings me back to respect, (or... regard, deference, show consideration for....UK Thesaurus). In early years I paddled my Finn multisport which was happy to absorb such punishment. The Time Traveller is more skittish in such conditions.

To you Monday night paddlers, please note. The only thing I have with me when I paddle on a Monday night that's made of plastic is my Senior's Card. Please show some respect!
Thank you.