Don’t you agree this photo is stunningly beautiful?
So much so I submitted it to a Facebook user group with 10K+ enthusiastic yet very cordial people almost a week ago and it is still in pending for approval mode.
That has kept me wondering why till now.
Last weekend I spent two nights at a campground at the bank of Lake Berryessa. The weather was gorgeously crisp, bright and warm. The water was still slowly releasing the heat it absorbed in the hot late summer so that you could still swim with your bikinis without a second thoughts. I immediately regretted that I did not bring my gym swimming gears with me.
The weather forecasted strong winds for the weekend but I was lucky to find tranquil moments in the late evening and the following early morning. I paddled out to the edge of the “Safe” zone of the lake marked by a few white buoys and enjoyed the big but gentle waves that pushed me and the boat up and down slowly.
Then I took this photo when I came back. The wave died down and the water was glassy. The early morning sunlight was honey hued and made the white body of the kayak semi translucent.
What a beauty! I thought to myself.
My friends whom I shared this photo with all agreed it is a beautiful shot.
Yet, the manufacturers owned group admin still put it on hold from publishing. I saw so many less glamorous Oru kayaking in action photos posted along with quite some “oh my god this is so good” ones like mine.
My curious mind couldn’t stoping wondering the possible reasons this particular one is blocked.
Did it reveal something the curators do not want the community to see? Some fragility shown in that beautiful semi translucent glow?
I recall that, not long ago, while I was paddling in the Lake George of Eastern Sierra, there was one old man approached me yelling a couple of times “you are so brave to paddle in that paper boat!” He was a stout build Central Valley ranch type of old man floating in a fishing tube nearby but so taken by my alien looking kayak paper thin that he dropped his tranquil fishing business for a moment to give me a big shout out.
I felt amused that I was deemed “brave” in my kayak in that tiny lake. But looking back, perhaps it did give some people that concerns if they were so used to the sturdy solid one piece strong kayak build.
But this is a community group dedicated to the owners of Oru kayaks. And my photo shows how beautiful they are.
So it baffles me till this day.
