Anyone else check out the headwaters kayak festival today?

Got off work this morning and made the hour and a half drive to Lodi to talk to the guys and demo a bunch of yaks. It was actually my first time in any kayak but Dan and his guys were very helpful and informative. I decided to pull the trigger on a Kilroy, I'm going to pick it up Wednesday.  Also tried some more bay/ocean yaks and man that Eddyline Caribbean 14 is sweet. Great event, hope this becomes an annual festival.

I demoed a couple Kayaks.
Nice event, nice music and good company
Thanks Dan for doing

I got there Friday night to camp.  Most excellent facility!  Dan came over just to say hi and chatted a bit on his fat tire bike.  Saturday was the bass tournament and I spent the morning fishing and meeting a lot of other kayakers.  One in particular, a Lodi local name of Shawn, who also has a Hobie PA, was pretty excited to hear about NCKA. He got into kayak fishing a couple months ago and none of his other fishing buddies will hang with him now.  Ha! 

A great day to be on the water with so many. 

I was there with my girlfriend. It was a great event! Everyone from headwaters was super friendly and helpful! We test ride everything there.

Our initial plan was for my GF to get some good seat time in a Jackson cuda 12. She then fell in love with the cuda 14 after using both extensively. I also fell in love with that kayak! Now we need to save our pennies.

Weather was perfect! I couldnt stay to the end, didnt feel well, but there was a lot of people and Dan and Crew never stopped all day!

Beautiful day and a lot of people.  Sam demoed a kayak, then he visited with Howard.

Stoked that this even happened in my home town. Sounds like Dan put on a great event. I love seeing the sport growing in the valley. Unfortunately, I couldn't attend due to the wife still recovering from delivery complications. Looking forward to the event growing next year. Lodi can really rally around a community event like this.

Yea I hope Dan and the city make this a new spring tradition. I don't see why they wouldn't, it sure did seem very successful. On a lighter note, I did see one guy go in the drink, attempt to self rescue then fall right back in on the other side. I grabbed his paddle and me and some people on the huge SUP gave him a hand back in.