It is Christmas Eve and I lay in my tent camped on the edge of a whitewater river in the jungle of Belize with my clients. It is now ten years on since I first came to work here in Belize, and I find it just as alluring now as I did then ( […]
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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 […]
Pacific Paddling Symposium 2014 Victoria
The change of the months brought the second PPS event in Victoria. At this event I was representing TRAK Kayaks, though also I was the official videographer. The PPS event is held at the amazing venue that is Pearson College and is located in an isolated bay near the southern most point of Vancouver […]
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 […]
18 August: Return to the Grand, the Year so far and Moving Madness
I have let this blog slide! It has been a super busy year of adventures and work (both which have sent me traveling all over the world) and I have struggled to keep posts coming onto the blog, despite half writing a bunch. So I am now getting back to my old ways , […]
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 […]
Feb 1st 2012: Bugs, Bugs Everywhere and not a Hermit Crab in Site
TRIP LOG: Sunny Hot Light breeze from the E for the morning none in the afternoon. Distance 13KNM ? Dinner: Pizza Baked in the Dutch oven over the fire STORY When I was a kid I used to go to the rock pools at low tide on the beach and look for critters. I would […]