{"id":649,"date":"2007-05-06T16:46:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-06T16:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phpaddlers.com\/day-trips\/penguinpaddlers\/boys-just-want-to-have-fun\/"},"modified":"2007-05-06T16:46:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-06T16:46:00","slug":"boys-just-want-to-have-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/boys-just-want-to-have-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Boys just want to have fun."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.phpaddlers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/1.jpg\" title=\"Ben &amp; Garth\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.phpaddlers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/1.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" alt=\"Ben &amp; Garth\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ben Lawry came to Redding this week for a visit, and we got to have some fun on the river while he was here.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Thursday night Ben gave the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.penguinpaddlers.com\">Penguin Paddlers Club<\/a> a slide presentation on the incredible <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dusi.org.za\/\">&#8220;Dusi&#8221;<\/a> race in South Africa and enthralled everyone with sights we have never seen before.<\/p>\n<p>Friday morning Ben came out to our Morning Up-River paddle and showed everyone his power and grace. We all had a great time and enjoyed watching Ben Back-Surf and put the little <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/osb\/itemdetails.cfm?ID=8\">Capella<\/a> through it&#8217;s paces.<\/p>\n<p>Garth has found another new friend and it was refreshing to talk about our sport, industry, design and future with a like-minded paddler.<\/p>\n<p>Below are some photos for everyone to enjoy and we hope to see you on the water!<\/p>\n<p>Captain Penguin, Garth Schmeck<\/p>\n<p>P.S. Hey Ben, it&#8217;s 90 degrees and sunny today!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.phpaddlers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/8.jpg\" title=\"Jack\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.phpaddlers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/8.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" alt=\"Jack\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.phpaddlers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/4.jpg\" title=\"Captain\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.phpaddlers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/4.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"902\" alt=\"Captain\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.phpaddlers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/2.jpg\" title=\"Ben backing in\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.phpaddlers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/2.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" alt=\"Ben backing in\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.phpaddlers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/9.jpg\" title=\"Jack &amp; Garth\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.phpaddlers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/9.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" alt=\"Jack &amp; Garth\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.phpaddlers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/6.jpg\" title=\"Jack dropping in\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.phpaddlers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/6.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" alt=\"Jack dropping in\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.phpaddlers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/3.jpg\" title=\"Ben in reverse\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.phpaddlers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/3.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" alt=\"Ben in reverse\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.phpaddlers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/10.jpg\" title=\"Garth &amp; Ben\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.phpaddlers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/10.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" alt=\"Garth &amp; Ben\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.phpaddlers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/12.jpg\" title=\"Ben digging\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.phpaddlers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/12.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" alt=\"Ben digging\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.phpaddlers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/11.jpg\" title=\"Garth digging\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.phpaddlers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/11.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" alt=\"Garth digging\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Lawry came to Redding this week for a visit, and we got to have some fun on the river while he was here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trip-reports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}