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Day of Paddle Considerations
- The most common injury on our kayaking trips is sunburn and it’s largely preventable.
- Prevention: use and regularly reapply SUNSCREEN!!
- Lack of proper hydration is the next most common issue.
- Prevention: Drink Water… sip often!
- Beyond sunburn and lack of hydration, the next most typical misadventures are minor scratches, scrapes, and bruises. Prevention includes:
- Avoid hitting the kayak hull while paddling (Knuckle Busters – poor paddling technique).
- Avoid bumping watercraft into each and getting pinched or scraped.
- Good water shoes help prevent falls and provide traction and protection for any trips into the brush or mud.
- Be cautious where you step, what you step on, and what you put your weight on.Aquatic life will typically do what they can to get out of the way – unless you step directly on them.Submerged or semi-submerged trees, logs, branches, rocks, or other natural or man-made item or debris may break, shift, roll, hit, poke, stab, snare, catch, or entrap.
- Avoiding unexpected shallow water trips out of or off the boat and thus colliding with anything off the boat is always the best course of action.
