We met a couple (who I told what a great place this is to chat and learn) in a little place called Congo, who loaned us a coulple of Kayaks. we took them for mile up the river for miles and loved the "Hobbie"(brand name) so much we couldn't wait to find an outlet to purchase our own. We did this in Sale and took them to Tassie we then put them in the water every chance we got but the most memorable was kayaking around Dove lake. We got there at 8am drove up to the boom gate and just as the info lady on the boat (spirit) said they opened and we drove right into the lake and launched, had the whole place to ourselves literally as no one else took to the water. When I can work out how to make my photo's smaller I will post some. If you are on this forum thanks a bunch for lending us your Kayaks.

Trial photo size

FR shrinkpic is not really free, they want your email address, but the program looks good, although I have not be able to download it, don't want to give my email address out for this sort of program.

However here is a free one, I've been using for years

http://www.faststone.org/FSResizerDownload.htm

Love our kayaks, we've had them a little more than a year, hubby has a Hobie rev mirage with pedals for fishing (leaves the hands free) I have an Ocean Venus.  I am just not a water (meaning ocean, beach, lake etc) person, its an old joke but I get sea sick walking across wet grass but I just love my Venus, being a bit of a coward I go early mornings when its mostly calm and quiet....very relaxing, I'm in my own little world!