For Julie Heylings, kayaking with her family was the perfect day out. Spending time at their holiday apartment in Trearddur Bay, Wales, Julie and her daughter Megan were heading out to their favourite spot, a beached area called Smiley Lagoon.
But although they’d confidently been hitting the water for almost a decade, Julie was about to discover how unpredictable it could be. ‘We don’t take risks,’ she explains. ‘If it doesn’t look like it’s suitable to get out there, we don’t, but this day the weather was perfectly calm.
We were having fun and racing each other, literally just 100 metres from the shore.’ At 17, Julie’s daughter Megan had a big social life and had introduced a few of her friends to her love of kayaking.
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