I got into kayaking over the summer. During the 100 degree days, it was pretty great to climb onto my sit-on-top kayak and have the lake water splash up and around me to cool off while working on my tan. My friend Seth used it as an excuse to finally get a kayak as well.
After lapping the local lakes several times over the months, we decided it was time to try a river trek. The route we took, found here, was to take us from North Bend, NE to Plattsmouth, NE for a total of 71 miles.
The plan was to go down river and take pictures along the route, but as anyone from Nebraska can tell you, the Platte is not the type of river where you can stop paddling for a bit and pull out your camera. It is almost always necessary to make course corrections to go around hidden sand bars. If you're unfortunate enough to get stuck on one, you're lucky if you can get out in 2 minutes of hard paddling and really unlucky if it takes you 5 or forces you to climb out of your kayak.
So, needless to say, we didn't get a whole lot of pictures taken, but I was able to record enough video to make this vlog for you to enjoy. I've never done a vlog on this page before so hopefully its low production values are good enough.
If you have any questions about the trip, leave a comment and I'll do my best to answer them.
A special thanks to Seth Burkey for lending some video and photos to this. You can check out his awesome work here: http://sethburkeyphotography.com/
Some of the equipment used on the trip:
Nikon Coolpix w300 Underwater Camera - http://amzn.to/2yLWq3k
Nikon Coolpix a900 Digital Camera - http://amzn.to/2yaM5Ra
Jetboil Flash Cooking System - http://amzn.to/2yyOzF8
Below is our trip as recorded with the GPS in my Nikon w300. You can play around with it and see it in a bigger window here. It was taken with 1 minute intervals between GPS logs.