Father-Son Duo Completes Grueling Kayak Journey Down The Chesapeake Bay

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OCEAN CITY, Md. (WJZ) — A father-son duo conscionable completed a 200-mile travel down the Chesapeake Bay, each to rise wealth for a bully cause.

Hearly Mayr and his lad Andreas landed successful Smith Island, Virginia connected Friday.

“It was 2 weeks of a batch of grueling work,” Hearly Mayr said. “Long days and you cognize conscionable facing a batch of challenges.”

They started backmost connected July 16 up successful Elkton and past went each the mode down to the constituent wherever the bay meets the Atlantic Ocean implicit 15 days, stopping successful antithetic beaches and towns on the way

But it was a hard feat for them to instrumentality on, getting stuck successful storms portion connected the h2o and paddling for 15 to 20 hours a day.

“It was really a spot much mentally exhausting,” Hearly Mayr said. “The carnal part, you get utilized to it but each day, your caput wants to find a cardinal ways for you not to continue.”

Andreas, 13, is present the youngest teen to paddle the full magnitude of the bay. But helium spent immoderate bully prime with his dada portion taking successful each the earthy quality the waters astir him had to offer

“Looking astir we saw immoderate dolphins, immoderate bald eagles, saw a batch of jellyfish,” helium said.

They made the travel to rise wealth for the Adventist Development and Relief Agency to get nutrient to bare families deed hard by the pandemic. They helped the radical surpass its fundraising goal.

“We wanted to bash this benignant of to propulsion this implicit the decorativeness line, if you will, truthful we were truly blessed and conscionable excited to perceive that the campion reached its extremity and surpassed it to $3.2 million,” Andreas said.

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The brace is present recuperating with an Ocean City vacation, taking a well-deserved interruption from kayaking.