More like 3 or 4
...not even kayaking...just swimming and caught up in the current.
damn that sucks bro----I know the feeling.
Long story short, I was a kid and swimming/body surfing all day (out in santa monica), it was a bad day for riptides and I wasnt paying attention and looked back and realized I was far as fuck out. Started swimming back, I was going nowhere fast. My brain kicked in after 1 min of that and started swimming in a diagonal to get out of the riptide. while I was doing that I got one of the worst leg cramps in my life (shitty feeling). other than that, made it back and walked out the water like a boss (totally faking it) for the sake of the lifeguards (who were yelling at me the whole time) with surfboards ready to save me. tehy said once they saw I was swimming in a diagonal to shore to get out of riptide they knew I knew what I was doing.