GPS Test Drive
I bought a Garmin Nuvi 260W car GPS navigator today. It's a fairly basic unit, with a nice big screen for my dodgy eyesight. The other similar unit is the Tom Tom One XL but it doesn't speak the road names, that was a good enough reason to choose the Garmin.
I decided to take a drive down to Sandringham to learn how to use it, practice driving around the Aussie roads and go visit a windsurfing shop at the beach. 4 birds with 1 stone, cool. There's a new freeway that opens tomorrow called the East Link that would cut the travel time quite considerably, and unfortunately the GPS decided that was the best route for me to take so kept directing me from one closed on-ramp to the next. Only after I got home did I realize that it's a toll road and I can set the Nuvi to avoid tolls, so the drive took a lot longer than expected. Other than that it's a very easy thing to use, only took a few minutes to get the hang of it.
As you can see it's overcast and not warm enough for actual beach-going but it was nice to go there anyway. I had quite a long chat with Ivan from SHQ about the local wind conditions, where to sail, what kit is suitable etc most of which I'll have forgotten by the time I actually get to do some sailing. From the boards available in the shop, it seems that not many people use boards bigger than 100 litres, so something else new to learn. It looks like my gear will arrive in September so that should be just in time for some summer sailing. It's going to be sweet!
Labels: Windsurfing
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