Each morning for an hour we power through a series of demanding postures – downwards dogs and warriors – switching on tired muscles and stretching out the lower back and spine, which feels good after long hours paddling.
If rideable, with wind not lashing against us, we clamber hastily into our wetsuits and lift foam surfboards to the beach, practicing our statue-like pop ups on the sand, before paddling out to the real thing.
Mr Kjos has the ambition and appetite for risk of a Viking hopping on a longboat and paddling off to pillage Northumberland.To escape high Nordic labour costs and taxes, NAS is increasingly basing planes and hiring people elsewhere: in Spanish resorts and at London's Gatwick airport.
Defending hallowed soil from Japan is something that everyone can agree on.Just hours earlier, however, the government was paddling back from a much less successful attempt at teaching patriotism.
Mr Jin recalls paddling there as a boy while his mother washed clothes on the bank.
A photograph from 1897 shows two women in prim hats paddling glumly through the streets of Fargo, in the young state of North Dakota, after another epic flood.
Over a century after he wrote it, "Three Men in a Boat", his quintessentially English comic novel about accident-prone Victorian gentlemen paddling down the River Thames, is a bestseller in southern Sudan.This may seem unlikely.
This stresses that moose are unpredictable, able to swim as fast "as two men paddling a canoe" or run at 35 miles (56km) an hour.
This idea was around long before the 1960s gave birth to modern environmentalism; at the Vermont camp where I served as a counselor, founded in 1910, a yearly ritual entailed waking the 12-year-olds up at midnight during a full moon, paddling canoes to the middle of the lake, and reading them the text of the famous 1855 speech by Chief Seattle of the Duwamish.
He preferred to assume that plenty was still unknown, and to accept that fear was the price you paid for paddling into Nature's secrets.
