This is Dave Wells from Naturally Superior Adventures and Scott Ewart from 1000 Islands Kayak are getting a serious arm workout.

Virginia Marshall from Adventure Kayak magazine took this awesome photo at the 2011 Georgian Bay Storm Gathering last month. That’s 35 knot (70 km/h) winds and yes, the rain is coming in sideways.

Keirron Tastagh from Adventurous Experiences out of the UK posted yesterday a series of fantastic photos of sea kayakers playing around in the surf.

Maybe it’s the angle that the photo was taken but to me it seems like only about one foot of the boat is actually touching the water.

Looks like one awesome day on the water.

Check out the full gallery here.

Photos posted with permission from Keirron Tastagh.

Local paddling school and friends of the site, learntokayak.ca just posted the short list for their second annual sticker/photo contest and they are looking for your help in picking the winner.

It’s easy to pass your judgement. Just go to the photo contest on Facebook and click like for the photos you think are the best and the one with the most votes gets brand new Werner Paddle.

You had better hurray as the winner gets announced Friday, September 30.

Image Credits: learntokayak.ca 2011 Photo Contest

I’m not exactly sure where this was taken but looking at some other photos in the Flickr photostream it was taken in the Bohuslän archipelago in Sweden.

And here is a very unrelated bonus photo for you. Darth Vader busking in Victoria, BC.

Top photo credit: Alt. kayak / Mads Bødker / http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/

Bottom photo credit: Victoria BC Canada - Inner Harbour - Darth Vader Busker / Cindy Andrie / http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/

I love this photo of Instructor Alan D. working with Roger B. to get his roll at the MEC Toronto Paddlefest last year. It’s a great example of how it feels to work with student when they finally make the breakthrough.

Photo Credit: Kamil Bialous