Sunny, Hot, light wind form the NE Distance 6.5 KNM to camp another 4 paddled in the mangroves. Dinner: Coconut and Garlic Poached fish with beans lentils and rice. I sit writing by the campfire as a young Crocodile sits quietly watching me from the water that is barely 3 meters from me. When […]
Monthly Archives: April 2012
Looking Back on Kayaking the Coast of New Zealand
It is now a year since I, pulled into wellington harbour in New Zealand, and called an end to my attempt at paddling the length of NZ’s east coast form the north of the North Island to the South of Stewart Island. What an amazing trip it was and it feels like a life time […]
Isla Coiba Jan 30TH: Up Crocodile Creek
I am super glad we are not going anywhere today, my back is sore and after a big days paddling in some real hot weather yesterday I am more than happy to sleep in lounge away the morning with pancakes, then walk up the long extensive beach before returning to camp for another nap. I […]
The Grand Canyon Beckons
Excitement fills my heart as I read that I Have secured a permit to run a non commercial trip on the Grand Canyon for August 2013. I pay my $400 deposit and that is that, it is official. 16 months from now, all going to plan, myself and 15 others will be kitting up rafts […]
Coiba Island Jan 29th: A Bizarre Coast
Weather: Sunny and Hot with a Light Sea Breeze Swell: 1-2 foot Distance: 15KNM Dinner: Egg, Fish, Tomato Pita wraps with Fresh made on the Fire raisin Cinnamon Bread. I awake to a golden light creating the western point of our little cove we camp onto glow, macaws croak in the canopy accompanied by […]
Jan 28th Big Fish are Biting.
Sunny and Hot Distance: 4 KNM Camp at Hermosa Point beach (Playa Blanco) On the water earlier today, though still not early enough. The Surf was slamming the beach, though the waves only a foot and a half high. We lunched of the beach with the sea socks in the TRAK’s, due to the fact […]
Jan 27th: A Boat In the Night
Weather: Sunny Hot light wind from the SW/ Distance: 6 NM Dinner: Rice and Beans, chocolate Cake A fire of smoldering embers glows beneath the starlit sky as small waves break upon the pebble beach I lay on. Awaiting the chocolate cake cooking inside a Dutch oven buried on in the hot coals before […]
Jan 26th: Permission?
Weather: Sunny Hot light wind Distance: 6 NM Dinner: Tuna Pasta Story Sitting in the Shade at the ANAM station I pack all the food for the 12day expedition into the tapered stern dry bags; Allison fills the water containers, two 6 liter dromedary bags and four 6 liter wine bladders. We are a bit […]
TRAK Files Episode 3 is Out!
Episode 3 is out, this episode has been a bit of a cursed episode, finally released almost a month and a half behind schedule, due to unforeseen technical issues of filming editing and producing the series while in the road traveling in Central America. In February my computer unexpectedly stopped working after a slight incident […]