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Bucket shower in Rex’s beach tin shack     This morning the van was fully loaded, my spare and main kayak were strapped to the roof rack, and we drove off to Cheyne Beach where I took out on Saturday noon!   Greg would be driving one last time back to Albany for the very […]

Adrian and Alison, our lovely hosts in Albany in their Apartments on Spencer     We decided yesterday we’ll simply need today to get done with the van settings, that we eventually can drive and stay where I’m paddling to and sleep in the van! So no paddling today, despite good calm weather…   It was really […]

    The drive to the take out and launching point became longer every day, staying in Albany as a base camp. We got up at 5am, and I was on the water some time after 7am. The launch from Two People’s Bay was dead easy through some seaweed on the beach, but I started […]

  It was quite a chore to drive the next days back and forth to our Albany base camp, but necessary that Greg was able to work on the van and I could keep on making some distance.   So we arrived at Shelley Beach again at 7.15am, and I was ready to launch at […]

picture by Terry Bolland    I was a good expedition girl, and had discipline enough to use this day’s good weather forecast for another long paddling leg instead of sleeping in and spending some more time with Greg the first day we met again…he was launching me at 6.30 am for a long 70 km […]

  Greg leaving with our new van with my spare old kayak on the roof  from Terry Bolland’s Canoeing Down Under shop in Perth     The surf on the beach hasn’t really changed since I landed. There were still about 6 lines of more or less strong rolling breakers, plus an ugly washing machine […]

    And it *was* an ugly day. The morning was actually quite calm, but the sea looked whipped up from the night’s storm and had a bigger swell running than the day before. The tide was a bit higher, too, and launching through the breakers didn’t look inviting at all.   The sky was […]

  James and Margaret, my lovely and helpful “hosts” at the Banksia camp     I had a „date“ with a local camper at 7am to get my boat and gear down to the beach, but as I was alreday ready to go at 6.15 am I was looking around and luckily found two other nice guys […]

  Not the whale in the distance, but a sleepy seal in the middle of the ocean    Next morning I decided my body is that sore it will be more than enough to do the 30 km to Windy Harbour, despite the prefect conditions with moderate following winds. The next landing spot would be […]

Beautiful swamp around Lorna’s house area   100 km to Windy Harbour were to be covered in one day – as no safe sheltered landing was existing along that coast. Ok, this meant launching at night, or paddling into the night!  Augusta seemed to be a clean run with no reefs or such in the […]