Paddleboarding

When we talk about the extra activities, we're talking camping, kayaking, snowshoeing, maybe intensive photography workshops.

There are a couple of companies that offer snorkeling, diving, paddle boarding.

Stand-up paddle boarding, yeah.

Yeah.

What else am I missing?

So we could do an episode on that.

I think that covers the majority of the activities.

We are already getting up to an hour and I want to kind of wrap this episode up, but we covered camping, kayaking, snowshoeing, snorkeling, diving, paddle boarding, photography workshops.

I felt very safe.

What do you think can be done to encourage more women to take on adventures, to try stand-up paddleboarding, to get out there and spend more time in nature? You know, you're someone who started in your 40s.

What, I suppose, what would you like to have heard more about when you were first starting out? What other support could have been available?

Well, I was never hugely sporty at school and, like I mentioned, was very shy.

[laughs] I feel as though like my core isn't strong enough to hold up my, um, hold up my body.

So sometimes it's not as easy as it, as it sounds.

And stand-up paddleboarding is basically just standing.

Although you're doing like 50,000 stomach crunches along the way, it is essentially standing.

Sunday, here's me.

Paddleboard, okay? Just like you.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I repeat, there's jellyfish in Eastern Kentucky.

Paddleboarder reportedly encountered a cluster of them.

This is not a singular jellyfish.

This is jellyfishes.

Yeah

... you know, what do you know about paddleboarding, and, um, have you been on one before? And, you know, we are fortunate enough to have very nice equipment from BOTE Paddleboards, um, but learning what that transition of paddling, spotting fish on your own-

Yep

... stopping the board, picking up your rod, figuring out where that wind is going to, you know, uh, swing that board, and then making some shots, um, that's tricky.

I do a st- st- I standup paddle, uh-

Paddleboard or the sport paddle?

Paddleboard paddle.

Yeah, yeah.

Okay.

Yeah.

Paddleboarding's, like, actually hard, though.

[laughs] I, I did it the other day-

Literally, I know.