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      Satellite text message from Freya 10/26/07: (Updated by Freya 27.10.07)   S41.12 E174.18 Okukari Bay near entrance of Tory Channel. Started paddling 7.40 am, smoking catabatic SW following winds off French Pass/ Admirality Bay, pretty rough stuff! Tide was turnig to follow at 8.30am that day.   Not much "real" surfing, as […]

  Freya has started her circumnaviation of the South Island of New Zealand.   I’ll provide some of the satellite phone text messages received from Freya during her travels, to keep you informed of her progress.   Thanks, Greg! I am missing you on this trip…but I will do my way solo this time. We […]

  Paul Caffyn, myself, Paul’s trip partner for Greenland,Conrad, and Greg Stamer on Paul’s lecture in Reijkjavik/Iceland, one day before Greg and I finished our Iceland circumnavigation   My shoulder and therefore the spirit to get going is getting better day by day, but the weather isn’t quite following up…last night Paul’s house was shaking […]

Ok, I’m here. 33 exhausting hrs of a quiet flight, but two hours before I touched base with NZ territory in Auckland first, I was grounded already for some days… :-(( I forgot to ask Air NZ for a sponsorship for keen circumnavigational kayakers providing a comfi buisiness or first class seat and (as usual…) […]

Where? Around New Zealand’s South Island  When? October 2007 -???   With whom? Solo.    Kayak: NDK Explorer     Paddles: Epic wing blades    Paddling clothes: Kokatat & Reed    Spray Deck: Snapdragon    Bits and pieces: North Water    Neoprene-Boots: Chota    Helmet: Sweet    Map case: [...]