Paddling with Green Russel

This morning's weather is better than it was over the past three days and that's a relief as I'm going out on the water in a kayak. Not the ocean (too choppy still) but a lagoon - Waituna, with Green leader Russel Norman and several other keen kayakers and environmentalists. The purpose of the paddle is to acquaint Russel with the pallorous state of the lagoon and see if we can provoke him into conveying the message that there's a crisis there, to levels higher than we rank and file Southland greenies can easily reach.  We'll be pulling on waders as well and gallumphing out into the rotten lagoon bed to get black with malodourous mud to really drive home the reality of the degradation to Russel, in case he didn't get it when he was safely tucked into his kayak.
Should be a good morning, though it's a bit breezy and there's no sign of the summer temperatures we enjoyed a week ago.
There'll be a meeting afterwards, in a country hall, for all parties interested in the fate of the lagoon and the future for farming in the catchment. I expect there will be a farmer or two in attendence and some farming words exchanged as the debate sharpens.
I'll have photographs to describe the day, unless the camera and I go lagoon.