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At Home
In The
Water
Kathy Pszonka, 71, has a
passion for paddling that
began 20 years ago when
she took up kayaking
by Don Corrigan
Kayak Crazy Kathy Pszonka plans to
spend her 71st birthday this September
on the waters of the Sepik River in Kathy Pszonka, a member of the St. Louis Canoe and Kayak Club, during a recent outing at Simpson Lake in Valley Park.
Papua New Guinea. She will be lodging | photo by Diana Linsley
in grass huts on her trip, so candles on
her cake will remain unlit. took her first kayak lesson at age 52 and got it right.” that I do require stamina, some proven
None of Pszonka’s friends in the St. fell in love with paddling low-to-the-wa- Pszonka is now helping other novice experience, and a calm state of mind.
Louis Canoe and Kayak Club are at all ter in these increasingly popular, kayakers learn how to be on the water “I don’t want people freaking out on
surprised by Pszonka’s plans to float on eco-friendly, canoe-like boats. and get it right. She also leads kayak me on a long kayak trip,” explained
a wily river a half world away. They “When I got a nursing job at Barnes trips around the country, but she never Pszonka. “I can’t have people asking me
know this Fenton septuagenarian’s with better hours, I decided I would take advertises her tours. Folks on her trips to tow them, because they are all tired
motto is: “Just Do It!” up kayaking,” explained Pszonka. “I did are by invitation – her invitation. out. I can’t have people who are asking if
When it comes to getting in the water terrible in my first kayak course. I took “I handpick who goes, from people I they can jump out of their kayaks and
in a kayak, Pszonka has been “just doing the course over again – much to the dis- know through clubs and white-water swim to shore.”
it” for just about a score of years. She may of the instructor – to make sure I kayak sports,” said Pszonka. “The trips « continued on page 16
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