Second Annual Pay It Forward Paddle Official Report! 6-25-2011

As usual, I had a blast. Some of my highlights of the trip were:
Camping with my folks Friday night.
The Poetry Man (and the hex he put on Andy).
Bathtub Cheese.
Fried goodness.
4 visits from the campground rent-a-cop.
Late night raccoon shootings.
OTW kamikazes and pina coladas.
Live tako consumption.
Fishunter sighting.
Food coma.
Flying by Chad and Grace on the way home...twice.


Will try to post some pics a little later.

I flew past Chad and his outrageous new GF also. WTG Chad boy! Yes the food was off the hook. I didnt get a chance as Linelle was in the E-room with her Mom the day before so I will have to make up at Albion. Scott, thanks for the great tandoori lamb. Simply delicious!  Marvin for the mini-me burgers and everyone else. Its was really the best yet and I was starved after the paddle. Lost my 150.00 Smiths on the ditch out by the can.

I'm glad my speedo pics were not posted 

so are we 

Was a little late getting down to Monterey but got to see everybody launching out of MBK.
Quite a sight to behold! Launched and Craig was already to the buoy so I hung back and got a couple pics of him riding his victory wave into the beach.      Smile says it all!

Glad to see Mooch & Marv were able to make it down and wishing them the best as always.
Also good to see all other NCKA peeps. Looking forward to seeing everybody again @ Albion!
Sent in my 'papers' today.  jim

What a weekend!  I'm still sore from all that peddling on both days.  More pics for all to enjoy. To bad I forgot my flip video.  There were some really nice moments I wish I was able to capture.

Rey

Some pics from Friday night....including the coveted Bathtub Cheese.

Some random OTWs.

Some more...including Ben's octopus...and Jim eating its appendages.

The flotilla.

A little tag-along.

regarding the food......


I want to congratulate Scott / Greatbass2 for winning the  T.T.D.  " Taco Throw Down". The spice on the meat was truly mouth watering. (Scott would be a good neighbor to mooch from )

Shenanigans!!      I don't even get a mention..... 

I knew I should have given you a pre-judging foot rub.

Fun time for a great cause. Good to see friends, new and old.  See you all at Albion- We'll be camping for free thanks to the raffle.

This being My first NCKA event I did not know what to expect.  Left Reno Fri 2015hr arrived MBK approx. 0300hrs, napped in back of truck, woke up 0600 and greeted and treated as if I had been hangn' out with you folks for years.

From the Friendly atmosphere Paddling with the group, the paddle up Kamakaze Bar,  Great Food, Old School Yak vs Star Wars Yak race, The Raffle,  Tips, Pointers, FUN and Laughter.........and Beer.    Had a BossBitchnCool Time.  NCKA Rocks.  Thanks to All of You who made this Event  Possible.   
RussfromReno

Another cool PIF 2011 story:

I'm chilling with Jim. We're just hanging out shooting the shiz/drinking some brews when I commented on his cool ncka sweatshirt. I said, "I gotta get myself one of those." Having not seen the back of his shirt I didn't realize it was a sweatshirt from GS5 until he pointed it out. I told him I'd just be stoked to buy one of the regular ncka sweatshirts. Not 5 minutes later I'm making a trip over to my car to grab some gear for the raffle and I turn around and there is Jim, holding out the same sweatshirt that I had just been talking about. He says,"Hey Deva, here you go buddy."

Big Jim literally gave me the shirt off his back. 

How cool was that?

Thanks for the sweatshirt Jim!! You are the man!!

I take back all that bad stuff I said about you 

Oh and I'm calling off the hit I put out on you after you super soakered me in the face on the sail back to the beach 

-FF

Here's my attempt at a video collage of the event: