Just a quick one; paddled my first kayak trip since 2008 sabbatical AND spend 3 hrs studying Japanese.  I'm exhausted. >_<

0750 -- left DB (Choi Hung -> green top)

0900 -- arr. Sai Kung, picked up lunch and dog food with Dennis

1100 -- launched from Fred's

1135 -- arr. Grass Is. (made a beeline for it, didn't bother to paddle along the coast, so we trimmed distance but suffered more head wind -- which was mild anyway)

1230 -- (guestimated it, not sure what time we landed actually) landing (Grass Is.) and lunch (Where is the doggie??)

1400 -- launch

1440 -- arr. Fred (mucked around in the river and stuff)

Perfect condition -- mild wind, cloudy, low UV index, not too cold (except for during lunch time when we stopped paddling,) couldn't ask for more.

N.B. this was the original trip plan.  We started late, which is mostly my fault (my iMac failed to wake me up.  I need a less expensive, more user-friendly alarm clock.)  But everything else was perfect.  Well, everything else except that I got an owie on my index finger, and Dennis had to rub in that he is in much better shape than I am...

Next trip with Dennis would be 21st or 22nd, from Fred's -> Nam She Wan -> Mai Fun Tsui etc.