Pencil Flares - Playing Hard To Get

Schlepped to three different stores and called another to get myself a new set of pencil flares today (having fired my last set at the Total Sports Challenge). Without them I'm probably not going to be allowed to race in tomorrow's Discovery Men's Health race, given the near death of a paddler in the last race.

Here are the Saturday morning results:

- Brian's Kayaks, Paarden Eiland: closed (astonishing that they were closed on a Saturday morning).
- Waterworld, Paarden Eiland: no pencil flares in appropriate paddler-friendly casing, only one-time smoke flares (no good).
- Kazkazi Kayaks, Three Anchor Bay: no flares, sold out due to rush from surfski paddlers.
- Paddlers.co.za (phoned them), Simon's Town: one set in stock, but got a hold of them too late. Simon's Town is also a 80km round trip to my place.

After driving around Cape Town for flares I settled on doing some carbo-loading at home with my first ever Japanese beer and roll-your-own sushi.