ALLEGRA BOVERMAN/Gloucester Daily Times Kathy Halmi of Lexington, 73, was loading her kayak on her car at Essex Landing after a very strenuous kayaking jaunt on the Essex River with her daugther-in-law Paula Brown of Ipswich on Friday afternoon. Halmi was laughing because she was so tired as they reached the end of their trip that she asked someone on shore to help her get out of her kayak, and she and the man who assisted her both ended up falling into the water.

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