Father & Son Evening on the Water (First Kayaking Trip of the Season)
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- čas přidán 6. 09. 2024
- Hey everyone, Mikeycat Outdoors here. The weather was getting warmer, and a few weeks had passed since my surgery, so I was ready to use my arm again in full capacity. My son and I went on a little evening road trip for the boys and started it off with pizza and cannolis. We stopped off at a nearby nature area that has several channel lakes which were constructed during reclamation efforts from strip mine land decades earlier.
We took the foldable Our Lake kayaks and set them up before casting off into the water. One of the kayaks has been used several times while the 2nd one was still new in the box. They definitely fold easier after a few uses compared to a brand new one. Each watercraft weighs about 18 pounds (about 8.2kg) which is far lighter than a traditional 40 lb kayak.
I was trying out some video with my Insta360 camera as well as my phone. I kept my Canon at home this time. Filming definitely requires a tripod or a good camera mount for a steady shot. I had neither with me, but still had fun playing around on the water and with the cameras. I needed to get outdoors as I’d been cooped inside for too long.
As a side note, wear proper floatation devices, and proper sun protection. As we get older, sun exposure can catch up with us. My arm looked like a baseball when I got out of the dermatologist a few weeks earlier. It’ll probably take a year for it to look normal again. It currently looks like a red set of lips with stitch marks when the bandages are removed.
I’d like to dedicate the intro and exit theme song to a trail buddy who uses it in many of his videos. Old Goat in the Woods, keep your goat on. You reminded me to get back on the water.
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As always, thanks for watching. :)
I enjoyed this video. Looked very relaxing out there on the water. I think the video quality was just fine despite the challenges of doing it from a rocking kayak.
Glad you're recovering from the surgery. I've got a spot on my arm that I need to get checked out. Could be just an "age spot," but you never know. Good point about the sunscreen. You don't think you need it until it's too late and you get a bad burn and/or skin cancer years later. 😎
I need to get some better mounting points for my cameras while kayaking. I tend to either hold it or stuff it in my life vest straps and sit funny to get the right angles. Lol.
I've got a bit of red keratoma on my shoulders from blistering sunburns in my teen years which they said were nothing to worry about. The big puffy mole on my temporal region was considered nothing but they froze it to flatten it. The black specks on my arm are what caught their attention. It's always the ones you least suspect, not the skin colored ones that hurt when your shirt rubs on them. Go figure.
I had a blood pressure incident while camping over the weekend. Another joy of getting older. I'm thinking about salvaging that camping footage for another PSA sometime in the coming month.
Thanks for watching.
Great news on the test! Good PSA - wear Sunscreen. Also, it helps wearing long sleeve shirts & pants that are fast wicking. They typically have a SPF factor of 50. Interesting kayaks & very portable for sure!
I've been trying out a few sun hoodies recently. I've owned some Outdoor Research Echo hoodies, and one FayetteChill fishing hoodie they no longer make. I recently picked up a couple of Sunseeker hoodies from BurgeonOutdoor which the red one gets featured in my Pomona and Cedar Lake videos coming up soon.
I had a blood pressure spike over the weekend while camping. No phone, no text, no 911, even my Garmin inreach SoS wasn't connecting to anything. 163/108 & a pulse of 118 for a couple of hours til water, meds, and rest calmed it down. Yep...it sucks getting old. My doctor's been on vacation 3x in the past two months and his nurse didn't seem too concerned about it. I might salvage that trip footage for a PSA health video in the coming month.
Thanks for watching.
@@MikeycatOutdoors Gotta watch yer'self out there! I can relate to getting old. My knee injury from the Army really kicked in on our hike to Indian Kitchen. Hadn't bothered me for several years, but Saturday... It was like - Hey! Remember me!?
@@OldGoatintheWoods I had one of those popping grinding sliding kneecaps last year on my 2nd day of the Red Cedar trail going downhill with 29 lbs on my back.