Sea Kayaking on the Mediterranean

Okay, my kayaking on the Mediterranean coast wasn't quite as action packed as this picture seems to imply, but it was definitely fun.

During my time in Nerja, a bit east of Málaga along the southern coast of Spain, we had a day to explore and do whatever. (Unlike me, most of the people at this conference live in countries other than Spain and in fact many of them live in countries that only have a few hours of daylight right now. Places like Siberia (seriously), Sweden,... So for them, the sun and beach and Spain is even more of a retreat.) Since some of us live in Spain and don't really want to sit on a bus for half the day to see something (Gibralter or Granada) we could see another time, we looked into some options closer to Nerja.

Wes had been kayaking in Nerja before so we decided to head up the coast and kayak in the ocean. We started off just carrying the kayaks to the shore, doing some group calisthenics, and kayaking 101 instructions about how to row, how to maneuver, and how to reenter if you flip. We then got in the water and took off.

We went through several caves, which only the kayak would fit through. We saw some schools of fish. We saw goats from the side of the cliffs. We saw a few small waterfalls. We saw something called tomatito which looks like a red tomato-esce sea urchin of sorts but is extremely poisonous. One kayak flipped I think a total of 5 times. A lot of fun was had. And we got a great workout - 3 or 4 hours basically of none-stop rowing.

Afterward we enjoyed some local paella in the outside ocean air, which was amazing (considering that I wasn't actually cold in the tank top i had one).