On Friday 27th Feb 09 Dale Chapman and I (Mike Manning) did our Byron Bay to Burleigh Heads paddle, after months of preperation and waiting for the right conditions. This looked like a good enough day so off we went....

Here we are at the start just before our 5.30am departure at Byron



This one is about 3.5hrs in, somewhere around Pottsville. The sea was still very unsettled at this stage with the wind offshore and the swell behind us.



Here we go opposite Kingcliffe (Mt warning in the background) after about 5hrs



We went around the outside of Cook Island this time, (6hr mark) which was as lumpy as it was on the inside when we did the Kingcliffe to Seaway paddle (40km)



This is coming into Burleigh after 8hrs.



The had a Garmin on us and recorded our progress:
67.5km 8hrs Ave speed 8.3km/hr max speed 16.2km/hr

Will post more details on equipment used etc later - MM