Crocs Around My Kayak

by David Lemon

Overweight, unfit and knowing nothing about handling a kayak, at sixty-five, David Lemon embarked on an ambitious attempt to kayak around Lake Kariba, Zimbabwe, in fourteen foot of moulded plastic that he had never seen before. This displayed either extreme foolhardiness or at best, a misplaced confidence in his own capabilities, but somehow, he survived. Battered by unseasonal storms and threatened by dangerous wild life while ashore, he wandered those fearsome waters for ten weeks and lived to tell an incredible story.‘Author, journalist, public speaker, adventurer, elephant man and general labourer,’ David Lemon has spent the last forty years challenging wild Africa – and himself – in a variety of what he calls his ‘silly little adventures.’ This book tells the story of one of the silliest that very nearly cost him his life but added to his mental storeroom of wonderful memories.

139 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 20, 2021