As if they were walking on water ...

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Last saturday we did a 10+Km crossing in the Barcelona area:

For the complete report: http://www.carlescarrera.com/2009/07/as-if-they-were-walking-on-water.html

Saturday morning. It’s too early … the workweeks are more and more tiring as the holiday break aproaches … the night has been really hot, and it’s hard to sleep well … the alarm clock is set at 7.15AM … too hard … but it’s still harder that I do not really need an alarm clock, because Pol gets up at 7AM … and makes everybody know that he has woke up …

But I have an important appointment: 8.30AM at Cabrera with Oliver and Sergi, as the finish point for our I SUP Crossing from Montgat to Cabrera. A good one.

The first drawback was that our planned launching point was not accesible, so we had to drive a little south until “La Rotonda”, where our crossing started between hordes of people already populating the beach. The sea was calm as if it was an oil pool, the waters clear, making possible to see clearly the bottom, as we started paddling calmly to our finish point.

This is a fully coastal crossing, following the villages of Masnou, Premià, Vilassar and finally Cabrera, with the two ports of Masnou and Premià in the middle. The crossing was easy but long, because of the lack of wind, and a bit hard for me, because my injured heel started to pain from the start during the whole crossing, forcing me to make two stops in the middle to get time to the tendon to recover from the pressure of the standing position.

After tow hours we arrived to the Cabrera beach, which at 11.00 AM, was really, really crowded of people watching incredoulous how three strange guys were arrinving at the beach “as if they were walking on water”.