Aotearoa / New Zealand

I'm afraid I don't know the right words, so I'll try to describe it. They were 2 people kayaks, one in front and one in back with a rudder controlled by the person at the back. You sat inside them, not on top, and we wore a thingy that goes around your waist and over the kayak hole to keep your toes dry. There were 4 couples, plus the guide.

Apparently the tide was perfect, we got a boost into the inlet with the last of the incoming tide, then a boost out when the tide turned. It was a tour so we stopped and talked about this or that regularly, and we also stopped on a beach for coffee so it's not like we were paddling for those 3 hours, and it was a pretty casual pace checking out the scenery.