{"id":10454,"date":"2023-02-06T23:59:54","date_gmt":"2023-02-06T10:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/edwinov.com\/edwininnz\/?p=10454"},"modified":"2023-03-27T20:50:41","modified_gmt":"2023-03-27T07:50:41","slug":"kayaking-on-the-avon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edwinov.com\/edwininnz\/2023\/02\/kayaking-on-the-avon\/","title":{"rendered":"Kayaking on the Avon"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It’s Waitangi Day<\/a>, the weather is great and so I decide to go kayaking on the Avon, I parked my car right next to the river, got the kayak out of the car and inflated it (takes about 15 minutes to completely set it up)<\/p><\/div>\n

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The kayak<\/a>, ready for action, the river flows from the right in the photo to the left, I will be going right, starting my track upstream<\/p><\/div>\n

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On my way, damn, this is lovely!! It’s been too long since I kayaked<\/p><\/div>\n

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One of the new bridges that were placed after previous ones were replaced because of earthquake damage<\/p><\/div>\n

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There’s a little side track here, you can go under that bridge, let’s do it!<\/p><\/div>\n

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This is where it ends up, nice for a break as you’re not dragged downstream which does happen on the Avon itself<\/p><\/div>\n

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In fact it’s very easy to drag the kayak on the shore here and stretch your legs before continuing<\/p><\/div>\n

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And continue I do<\/p><\/div>\n

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Near Pomeroy’s Old Brewery Inn is another easy way to get on shore again, clearly it’s also a very easy and fun way for some of Christchurch’s finest to dump supermarket trolleys in the river<\/p><\/div>\n

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Of course I get the trolley out of the river and leave it here, hopefully someone else will do the rest of the work and take it back to the supermarket<\/p><\/div>\n

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The river goes a lot further upstream but quickly gets too low for a kayak so I take another photo of the upstream river and then make my very easy downstream way back to my car, another well used day!<\/p><\/div>\n

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A map of the kayaking, the trip was 12.7 km and took 4.5 hours<\/p><\/div>\n

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