Thanks very much for your encouraging comments on my blog!
It seems like you all enjoy me writing my updates regularly!
It is a chore for me, which takes quite an amount of time off my “recovery time” off the water! I’m not a professional travel story writer, my English is limited and I’m paddling mostly stressful 10-12 hours a day!
But when I’m reading your comments later, I’m feeling it was well worth the effort, and its part of what keeps me motivated and going! So please, keep on commenting nicely!
To cherish all your lovely encouraging comments on my blog updates, I created an
For anyone who is new on my site and likes to have a quick overlook of my blog reader’s opinion about my trip without having to visit each single day’s blog entry – click on the links in the guest book to see the comments in a list. It will be updated regularly on the current month. (Word documents)
My most favorite comments are collected in the “Best of…” site – thanks very much for your encouragement!!!
If you have really enjoyed reading my updates like a continuous book, please feel free to use my “donate” button on my website to support my trip! Thanks! Any amount you can afford is welcome and helpful to keep me going!
21 comments on “Day 244, Friday, 18.09.2009”
Freya
It was good to see you again yesterday at Canal Rocks looking very relaxed and refreshed after rounding Cape Naturaliste. As you suggested we sat on the rock pinnacle with the kids and watched the pounding surf reach 10 metres into the air! The weather was atrocious today (Sunday) and we hope you were extremely careful if you chose to venture into that wild sea. Will be following your progress very closely from here on. Make wise decisions erring on the cautious and stay focused and determined. It has been great to get to know you – you are truly inspirational.
Laurie and Sonia
Dear Freya,
I’ve just discovered your blog and story by looking over the Epic website as I consider buying an Epic, my first kayak. What you’re doing is damn exciting and beautiful. Fabulous photos, too. Incredible trust in yourself.
Freya for President of the World! 😉 You have what it takes and you know what’s important. Have fun today.
Hello from France Freya…..
I read your comments every day….Very interesting human adventure. An exemple of courage, détermination and lucidity…
A big breath of freedom.
Thank you Freya.
Look after you, numerous those are that estimates you and admires you.
That winds are favourable to you
Freya,
Go On!!!!
Your adventure, courage, very good English ( better than my German…) writing style and and humor made me a fan of you.
I am eagerly opening the site to hear and see more and more.
Good luck.
Freya, any brief image of your day is enough. this is a monumentally huge quest. Every success is yours !
I share the sentiments expressed by everybody else here, and want especially to emphasize the idea that a book should be one result of your great OZ adventure. It would not only be something for me to enjoy, but would make a great gift for many of my friends and relations — a wonderful way to “share” the experience of following your journey day-by-day. Go for it!
If you look at the google-earth map of your trip showing all of Australia, and the places you’ve stopped, you will see the balloons form a nice horse-shoe shape – surely that means good luck for the rest of the journey.
Freya – It is just awesome what you are doing. Going on such a journey is something many of us dream about, but cannot due to various other commitments – you are living our dream for us. Thanks. My kayaking excitement is paddling off the coast of Maine, USA. Most of my time is rowing on the Mohawk River in New York. What you are doing is a non trivial task. You are blessed with all the support from not just the folks at various shore points, but also the email support. May the winds be always at your back!
I so enjoy your blog Freya! I am totally inspired by your courage, and at some point, after you have completed your journey, would love to hear how you managed emotionally to keep going day after day in sometimes horribly dangerous conditions. You must be the queen of positive self-motivation! Fall is almost here in Ontario, Canada, we’ll be putting the kayaks away soon, how sad, but I look forward to continuing to read about your incredible adventure.
Your English is limited?? After hearing you talk in Perth last week I can tell you that your English is NOT limited and you are absolutely hilarious. We are still repeating some of your stories.
And we have a little race here called ‘the doctor’ – the Perth World Cup race from Rottnest to Scarborough – 16th January – if you are still in AUS please come back for that, we’ll arrange a ski for you!
Keep smashin’ it and best of luck!!
Your updates are appreciated Freya…it is lovely to be able to look in and see how you are going, where you are up to, and some details about what your journey has been like. Knowing how tired you must be after each day in the wild waters of that coastline, we are grateful for the effort you are making to keep your online journal up to date.
I see you have encountered your first dead seagrass. You’ll see plenty of that around the southern coasts, although as summer comes on, the dead seagrass that was your ‘ugly weed’ will diminish, as it dies off in winter and is renewed as the water warms in spring. Seagrass forms vast meadows beneath the surface, and is a home and a breeding place for many varieties of marine life, so it is very important to the environment…but I agree…it is yucky to land in, and unsightly on a kayak! And smelly…
I’m looking forward to the news of your next effort, and thank you in advance for it…your adventure is an inspiration!
Freya, we greatly appreciate your efforts to post your very daring adventure.
A possible bok title could be:
“Incredible Intrepidity – Freya’s Solo Circumnavigation of OZ”
Hallo Freya
es ist jedesmal ein Vergnügen Deine Berichte zu lesen. Ich bin nur eine Flachwasserpaddlerin und beweundere Deine Leistung umsomehr.Du verwirklichst einen Jugendtraum aber ich lebte ja bis vor 20 Jahren hinter einer dicken Mauer.
Viel Glück und Kraft für Deine folgenden Strecken.
Halt die Ohren steif.
PS: And the photo’s aren’t half bad either.
When I take a break from my cubicle desk job half a world away from Australia, nothing refreshes me more than to check up on your incredible journey. Please continue to let us know how it is going, we are all with you in spirit, your strength and perseverance inspire us all.
Kiddo,
What’s the point of the blog if you do not update it? Why do you think we all keep coming back for more? Without your entertaining tales of the unexpected, your journey would not be half as enthralling as pure data updates.
And there SHOULD be a book in it at the end, a writer is often made because of the circumstances they are in, not because they see themselves as a writer.
So there and keep humble
xxx
Keep up the good work Freya!
Do I enjoy reading these blogs?
I’m already wondering what ever I will do to get that vicarious daily thrill once your trip is over.
Thank you for making the effort to share your wonderful adventure with us.
We realise it’s an effort Freya, but we love it that you do post updates of your journey. Thanks for letting us come along on that journey with you! 🙂
!! Hello ??? If anyone has “become” a professional story writer it is YOU!. Your English is wonderful, you get your points across, you are funny, inspirational, determined and beautiful. I see your confidence in all other things, please have confidence in your ability to write as well!!! I re-read some of the eary blogs, and I was reminded of the clothespins! Have you tried them lately for the huge swells?? Paddle on…
Freya, you are the most inspirational person! I considered myself a pretty hardcore kayaker until I discovered you and your epic journeys! All I have to say is WOW!! I know, with every fibre of my being, that you are going to complete this trip around OZ in record time!! I just wish I could be there to cheer you on in Melbourne. All the best from New Jersey, USA! -We’re rooting for ya =))
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