Kayaking for the first time.

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When my husband and I were in South East Asia recently, we signed up for a half day kayaking trip which included sea and river areas. I've never done this before, neither had he, so it was a bit of a learning curve. We listened to the guide, got into our kayak had a bit of a practice and then set off to see if we could get to the other side of the bay-type area without mishap. We were doing really well, we thought. Ten minutes later we hear "Wait! Hey, aussie, wait, wait please." We turned to look back, and there, behind us were 8 other kayaks, including the guide, trying to catch up to us. We were supposed to be part of a group, and we never knew. We thought it was just a 'do as you please' day, but no, it was a guided tour! Whoops. Language barriers! After that, we stayed with the group. It was an interesting, but tiring day. 3 hours of almost non-stop kayaking, and just when we were most tired, at the end, we had to paddle the fastest to beat the tide.