My name is Cătălin, and I’m not from Bacău.
I moved to the city 5 years ago and there are Bacauanians who don’t know that there are spectacular places of water, with specific fauna. Or, they know they exist, but haven’t explored them. For some time a new sport has been on the horizon, and I fell in love with it and made others fall in love with it. It wasn’t hard.
“SUP going? ” or ” are we boarding tonight? ” became legitimate questions in our small local group of enthusiasts.
SUP, the logical abbreviation, coined by others, for Stand Up Paddle Board, and that’s because SUPB would have been hard to pronounce 🙂 I first saw SUP in Vama Veche and rented for an hour. Small waves, me for the first time, so I couldn’t paddle standing, only knees, but it won me over. I ordered as soon as we arrived in Bacău. It wasn’t then the best choice after the precarious research of the deciding elements involved in buying a paddle, but I did it with joy and enthusiasm! I knew about the lake at the Leisure Island, but didn’t want to have wondering eyes on me at my first attempts at stand up paddle, so I asked colleagues about other places with water. I was directed to Coada del Lac, in the Bistrita Delta, next to the old willow forest, a fabulous place when not crowded, full of beauty and tranquillity. There I learnt to “walk on water”. And, since then, whenever I have the opportunity, late in the evening, or long laps of the Danube Delta, big lakes in the country, I have the SUP in the car and I don’t hesitate to enjoy the quiet in the middle of the water. And I’ve convinced many others.
My name is Cătălin and I love the middle of the water. Listening to the wind blowing, and the sun shining on me.
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