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This story is Terry Bolland’s write up in his own Canoeing Down Under newsletter from 08.10.2009. If you are interested to get this newsletter, please send Alaine an e-mail on cdu_newsletter@aweber.com. She will be happy to add you to the e-mail list! Thanks again to Terry assisting me with his support on several stages on my trip! I […]

It was only 50 km to Twilight Bay in Esperance Bay. If I would want to paddle across, it would add another 30km, and I was not up for another 80 km day today. I urgently felt like I needed to jump online, doing e-mails, looking at Google Earth and maybe upload some updates, if […]

  The wind dropped down a bit to nicely 10-15kn following, and the tide was higher than last night. All heavy reef breakers were only half the amount and size any more, and paddling out to the east was no big deal.   I had several options for landing spots today, and would take advantage […]

Time to leave this magnificent campsite, though bug infested, and beautiful beach! The forecast was still strong winds, but only 20-25 kn south westerly’s. This would be a nice ride, I estimated, and was really looking forward to cover good distance.   It was the first time since the east coast wind and waves were […]

  It was Sunday, and even in the sheltered campsite the wind was howling around our van. It was pancake with syrup time for breakfast, and I had half of my portion uncooked as raw dough – yummy! 🙂   We fiddled around with gear here and there, I dried out my tent which was […]

    I was on the water again at 6am, with quite some strong following winds today.   I knew going around the wide headland before Point Hood would be quite funny, but I didn’t expect it to be that ugly!   A huge south westerly swell was rolling against the cliffs, creating some rebound […]

A huge whale vertebra we found on Pallinup Beach this morning     I kept on pushing today, as it was good conditions but with still some swell going and low headwinds.   Around Cape Knob it was lumpy as hell, as it was a long wide headland with steep cliffs where the rebound action […]

  I got up at first light to check the weather – stuck my nose out to the beach, and saw the seas were a bit less and the strong headwind dropped to 5-10kn.   So it was time to get going again! The launch was best a bit around the corner just before the […]

(Note from Chris Cunningham: I’ll be paddling Spain’s Menorca for the next 10 days, so I won’t be able to update the blog. Freya will update when she can, and I’ll resume upon my return.)   It was another day of being weather bound. Too much still of bloody headwinds. We took the chance to […]

  My first catch of fish in my life, two on one line!     The forecast for today was 15-25 kn headwinds all day, nothing inviting at all to paddle.   We decided to stay dry, and I was typing all morning on my blog updates. We were both sitting quite comfortable in the back of […]