Tag Archives: Kayaking

Our New Zealand Adventure Published

  Adventure Kayak Magazine has published a story and photos from our Yak About Adventure Project at the start of the year. Article was written by Laura and the photos where provided by Freya, Cynthia and Myself. Freya even scored the Cover Shot, though it is not a photo from NZ. I am also proud […]

Downwind Squamish Surf Ski Dash and immigration Comedians

      Last night Tara and I crossed into the USA, thought not before we had an “EPIC” Surf Ski adventure. I had just spent a day helping install the new amazing custom” ‘Yak Wagon” roof rack that now enables 16 x 7 feet of storage space on the roof of the bus, and […]

Spring Back into Life in BC (Part 1)

  The New Zealand Yak About Adventure is over though the Yak About continues as always in my life, it is wonderful to be back in BC and spring is just arriving, there is still snow on the mountains and the nights are cold, though the days are sunny and getting warmer, while the tree’s […]

Skookum Times at Skookumchuck Narrows.

  This long weekend the weather was so, so but the flows were awesome. River surfers, Sea Kayakers and play Boaters converged on the legendary tidal rapid in Egmont BC Canada, and I was there amongst it. Catching the 6.30 am Ferry from Powell river I Rolled into Egmont in the Paddle Wagon and made […]

a Week of Fun Days on the Bay of Fundy

Recently I had the privilege of being invited out to the Bay of Fundy Sea Kayak Symposium by Christopher Lockyer’. My main duty was to deliver a  talk on the Recent Grand Canyon By Sea Kayak trip that we completed on new years day this year (READ ABOUT IT HERE), and to help Coach and […]

September 8th: Were The River Flows; A 2nd Return from the Grand Canyon.

  3 days ago I, Along with 15 other individuals stepped off four rafts onto the muddy shores of the Colorado River at Pearce ferry Arizona. Over the last 16 days we had traveled 280 miles through the Grand Canyon following were the river flows and now our fantastic journey was at an end. It […]

Beneath an Arctic sun

 It is rounding up to be an amazing Trip with Jeff, not quite what we had originally planed though still awesome. Here is what Jeff has written so far on the trip as we head off. you can read more of his posts on our trip here I will try and write some myself if […]

Heading South from Tromso.

May 15th Tromso Norway   It is 12am and it there is still light in the sky; sitting in the hold of a small live aboard boat, half asleep, I am writing this. Outside the water is glass calm yet the boat creeks gentle with the oceans pulse, small hills surround the area and framing […]

TRIP TO THE OREGON COAST

  This weekend was all about surf and Tech, TRAK needed to do some testing on their hydraulic system in real conditions, so I headed to the USA. I Seattle I picked up Lloyd Penner and his son Spencer, Lloyd is the engineer for TRAK and he had brought with him a really cool testing […]