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Dave and I started the day early, on the water at 6am. Dave set up Nadgee Kayaks, but recently sold it to Lawrence. He is also known as “Crocodile Winkie” after saving his mate’s life by jumping on a crocodile’s back and poking in the crocs eyes… He is quite a tall strong man, and using an almost empty […]

WHO CAN HELP???   %&$§&%$!!! But probably my mistake… I do use three memory sticks to save my pictures and stuff, Flash Voyager from Corsair, with 32 GB each. www.corsairmemory.com One of them – my MAIN ONE!!! – is not flashing any more – litarally – the light on plugging in doesn’t flash and shows […]

  I gave it a quite late start this morning – 9.30 am – as there were following winds all day forecasted, a pleasure ride for the first time! This is what I thought… The little mouse from last night visited me again in the vestibule, but found only my spare paddle bad instead of […]

The NSW South Coast Mafia, Lawrence Geoghegan (TITS III Antarctica) and David Winkworth, aka “Crocodile Winkie” in Lawrence workshop Lawrence working on my fragile epic kayak in “Lawrie” style…   And Lawrie *did* repair my epic boat…as Peter Provis work on my broken seat proved unsuccessfully not to last  too long as time pressure didn’t let it harden [...]

A wet, but still “black” Traveller’s Tree silk scarf plus Blu Bandoo visor works well to cool my head down. I don’t like hats, as my hair has to go in a bun first. Therfore this strange bump on the back of my head…And I’m not fiddling with sunglasses on the water.   Launching late again […]

The lycra rash-guard I was wearing the last two weaks was giving me a nice salt water rash…   I need to try some different paddling top…Peter Provis gave me one of his thermals, and I hope the next days my skin will look better…the rash was there already the first days, but developed pretty badly […]

Lighthouse at Point Hicks   Launching erly again at 6am, not sure what the day will bring again as for the wind…forecast as usual, mornings light to moderate headwinds, afternoon strong… i was bit short of fresh water for another night out there on the beach, and I was happy to get a fishíngboat coming […]

View from top of the dune ridge into the marsh hinterland view from top of the dune ridge to the sea I was launching from the Ewing marsh early that morning, to get a bit of quiet wind on paddling. A quick climb onto the dune ridge to get a look what’s behind had to satisfy […]

On the road (water) again…   Mick McRobb loaded my boat on his work van, and off we go, quite a bit of a drive from Barnsdale to Lakes Entrance again that early morning. On the way I had a live radio interview with Brandon from ABC radio – has anybody heard it? As I […]

Mick McRobb and Lyn Stephenson with their lively lovely Dachshound-puppies…sweet kind of dogs! i grew up with two Dachshounds… Thanks to both hosting me on that first pit stop! It was useful for office work, and a relief for my sore body…    Peter Provis in Mallacoota already called on my mobile for being ready […]