Kayak Training

We've always had a little fleet of boats at the lake house but, this year, we expanded our little fleet by also bringing along two new kid kayaks for Lukey and Kenzie. They are getting too big (heavy) to squeeze into our adult-sized kayaks (total weight capacities are the main problem) so it was time for them to learn to kayak on their own.

Lukey loved the idea... Kenzie hated the idea! For about two weeks, Kenzie consistently insisted that she will only be using Gee's kayak with Gee!

Lukey is more independent when it comes to physical stuff. Kenzie prefers to be dependent when it comes to physical stuff but will slowly ease into it when she sees Lukey is having no problems and even having fun. Truth be told, even though we purposely bought a kayak in Kenzie's favorite (but a bit sickening) color, we expected Kenzie to balk at using her new bright pink kayak.

We started them off at our little beach. Kenzie, however, wanted nothing to do with it. Lukey was paddling around within our roped area (where they can still stand in the water) and controlling his kayak fairly well at first but quickly got the hang of coordinating his body in a new way while still trying to stay balanced.

After an hour or so, Kenzie warmed up to the idea of trying her kayak in this shallow water... only in the shallow water... and only with Gee holding her kayak...