John Gerlach Loc: Island Park, Idaho

I love my floating blind for wildlife photography, but in many situations it isn't the best for the task. I do have at least five small boats, but all have issues. I don't want to trailer the boat so two fail there. A third is a small boat that doesn't paddle too easily. The Oldtown canoe is too tippy. My native ultimate II kayak is sturdy and stable, but paddleing it means you are dropping water on the camera gear in front of you as you switch sides, and worst of all, your hands are occupied with the paddle and not the camera unless you put the paddle down. Therefore, since I am in Jacksonville, FL now, I got a chance to use the Hobie boat mentioned. It is enormously stable and you use your feet to peddle and it goes forward very nicely freeing up my hands. And it peddles backwards too. It seems like it will be super for wildlife photography where deep water, venomous snakes, gators, or longer distances are present. I plan to actually take it with me to Michigan this year to photograph along the cliffs of Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore on a calm sunny evening and launch at Miner's Beach. It would be super to photograph the colorful cliffs while sitting right next to them in the Hobie handheld, or landing on a rock or small sandy area to use my tripod. Has anyone tried the Hobie for photography? How does it work!