- I left Willunga Saturday morning 14th Feb, after some poor navigation I got to Adrossan around 2pm. It was very windy. I went down to the boat ramp, and there were whitecaps out there and the forecast had it gusting at 50kph. I decided today was not the day to start, so I went to the Adrossan caravan park and got an unpowered site for $32.
On Sunday morning I cooked breakfast, packed up the tent and got to the boat ramp at around 8:30am. I didn’t really have a good launch spot. I dragged the kayak on a mound of seaweed. I packed up the kayak which is always hard the first time. As well I had lots of food, 19 days worth. I had stuff jammed everywhere including some at my feet in the cockpit. I drove the LandCruiser to the storage facility where it was going to sit for 3 weeks, about 1.5km away. I left the LandCruiser and walked back to the kayak.
The tide was dropping, the kayak was very heavy and it took me 30 minutes to drag it out to the retreating sea. I got to the water. I was really worried I had overloaded the kayak, and I feared it would not float. However it was fine and sat in the water as normal.
I headed out finally at 11am. Water was very shallow, I had to keep a fair way out to keep afloat. I stopped for lunch at 12:30pm, but the wind was picking up coming from the south east as an almost head wind. I got going but about around mid afternoon I decided I would pull in for a rest. By the time I landed the wind had gotten worse, so I thought I would look for a campsite, around 1km south of Rogues Point. I had only done 10km which was poor.
There were really not many good campsites. I walked up and down until I found a piece of sand next to the cliff. I had a high tide at 6:20pm, and an even higher one at 5:39am. I think it’s going to be ok. I will be getting up at 5am to make sure all is well
