Day 1...done!

So after day 1 both myself and Rob are feeling sore, raw and a little disillusioned. Who would have thought paddling 740km down the East Coast would have ben so hard...well not us for one but we have been shown the hard way that this is not the case.
After starting the day in magnificent form with Channel 9 news and the Byron Echo coming along to film the launch we started our paddle on a nice, clear and calm Byron Bay. This however changed as soon as we rounded the corner and headed straight into a Southerly wind that was trying to push us backwards (very unproductive wind and i think i mentioned this to it on numerous occasions with the odd swear word chucked in so it knew i was serious). The wind did not let up and turned our 4 hour paddle into a 7.5 hour paddle of endurance, great way to start!
We did see some marine life on our travels with the first being about 40 minutes into the trip. Now before i mention what we did see i should introduce our 3rd paddler named 'Kegsy'. Kegsy is our bucket of tunes iPOD dock which we aptly had blasting some songs to motivate us on our trip. Now as i was saying our first visitor, was a shark that we saw off to the left of us a couple of times which prompted the question "does bass attract sharks?". We didnt want to test this so we turned it off just in case and promised to Google bass and sharks. Upon returning we have realised that this is the case so Kegsy's involvement on the paddle is in jepoardy for the rest of the trip. Kegsy is understandably upset...
Thanks to Leif and Sophia coming down to see off us in Byron and be sure to go see Leif for any Aveda products you may need when in town and not a couple of skanky cheaper girls who have just opened a salon down the road.
Also a big thanks to Dan, Lisa and little Indy for making the trip down to say hello and see us off, it was much appreciated. Indy and i did not hit it off to well but i do have to say that it is one good looking baby but with parents and genes that she has there is no wonder (see picture below of the happy parents and even happier little girl i am holding, always had a way with the ladies...). Thanks guys and speak to you all soon.
I am off to bed now for a 4am start.
Stay tuned.
(sorry have bad connection so cant upload images but will do so tomorrow).