Safari Supplies

What do you eat on the Texas Water Safari? We have asked this question to every veteran racer we have met and we have found that the answers are all very different. Of course most racers agree that a mix of liquid and solid food is the best. They all tell you to make sure you have a good mix of electrolytes and some type of protein and carb drink mix. Some people take a mix of salty and sweet items to get them through the day. We have made our list based on other peoples suggestions and our own trial and error of eating things on our training runs. We had to find food that would last for the entire trip that we could handle eating while paddling. Every time we went into a store over the last few months we have searched for lightweight food options that we can handle eating on our trip. After much thought and we used a seal-a-meal machine and put together the following packages of food.

12 ramen soup
4 tuna
6 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches
36 Perpetum and Cytomax drink mix
16 cliff bars
10 peanut butter crackers
4 saltine crackers
6 Frito's
6 Cheetos
6 granola
24 Hammer Gu
3 fruit bars
6 Cheerios
3 pop tarts
1 beef jerky
2 NUUN electrolyte drink mix packages

Other items that we have to carry in the boat.
Safety kit - 3 flares,zip ties, duct tape
Lights - 1 dive light, 2 headlamps, 2 flashlights, many heavy batteries!
Clothes - 2 rain jackets, 2 extra shirts, 2 tights and 2 shorts
Personal items - sunblock, sanitary wipes, glasses, sun glasses, chapstick, Boudreax's Butt paste, Hydroglyde and Dr. Bonners soap.
First Aid kit - bandages, antibiotic cream, snake bite kit etc.
Spray Skirt
Sleeping sling for canoe (allows us to lie down in canoe like a hammock)
2 life jackets
1 waterproof ipod stereo system (this is our one luxury item to help us through the monotonous Guadalupe river on day two and three)
4 large water bottles
4 sports water bottles
We learned last night that the boat is quite heavy when fully loaded. We lifted the boat and Joy just said..."We can Do It!"