After seeing all the kayakers out on the lake a few weekends ago, we knew that we had to go back to try it for ourselves. We rented two double kayaks and just when we started to
make some distance between us 
and the shore, we were stopped mid-paddle by a warning blaring over a megaphone, "Rental kayaks, please return to the paddle area!" After the shock of the sheer volume of the warning had worn off, we went back to work, paddling hard, heading for the very distant shore across the length of the reservoir. Then, again, "Attention rental kayaks! Please return to the paddle area!" Loud, very loud. They must have been talking to some other renters who were near the end of their rental time because we had only used up 6 minutes of our 1 hour. We kept going. A moment later, another warning. It was starting to seem like maybe this was for us. We kept going, ignoring several other warnings over the next few minutes. Finally, we found a an inlet into which we could slip away, out of sight of the boathouse. When our hour was up, we returned to find out that the zone for rental boats is a tiny little zone near the shore and only those with some kind of certification can paddle beyond that zone. It's a good thing that we enjoyed our long boat trip on this day because we're probably on the Singapore Canoe Federation's black list and won't be able to rent from them again.
and the shore, we were stopped mid-paddle by a warning blaring over a megaphone, "Rental kayaks, please return to the paddle area!" After the shock of the sheer volume of the warning had worn off, we went back to work, paddling hard, heading for the very distant shore across the length of the reservoir. Then, again, "Attention rental kayaks! Please return to the paddle area!" Loud, very loud. They must have been talking to some other renters who were near the end of their rental time because we had only used up 6 minutes of our 1 hour. We kept going. A moment later, another warning. It was starting to seem like maybe this was for us. We kept going, ignoring several other warnings over the next few minutes. Finally, we found a an inlet into which we could slip away, out of sight of the boathouse. When our hour was up, we returned to find out that the zone for rental boats is a tiny little zone near the shore and only those with some kind of certification can paddle beyond that zone. It's a good thing that we enjoyed our long boat trip on this day because we're probably on the Singapore Canoe Federation's black list and won't be able to rent from them again. 
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