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I’m on the homerun…thanks to all for your support!

picture by Terry Bolland I had some spare minutes the last days to work on what may seem to someone who doesn’t know me like a “huge bible of egoism”… my “Best of…” 2009 guest book is ready! You have all right in the world to ask “why I put together a “Best of…” book?” There […]
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Day 250, Thursday, 24.09.2009

Lorna took me to Margaret River today, shopping, sightseeing, lunch…we had a look at the world famous surf beach at swell height 7-8m. It was that massively crashing breaking with strong 30kn winds out of the wrong sw direction that not a single surfer’s bum was out there. Just a pity that a picture can’t really […]
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Day 249, Wednesday, 23.09.2009

34.20 115.10 Flinders Bay Augusta 30 km 7,5to12,5 wait for the right weather, and you (I…) can paddle around anything… Today was the day…the gap in the weather for rounding the treacherous Cape Leeuwin. Winds sw to w 10 to 20 kn, swell 3m. As good as it can get in this season. The look yesterday […]
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Day 248, Tuesday, 22.09.2009

Lorna and I made another visit to Cape Leeuwin lighthouse this morning, to ease my mind that 5 m swell are no good paddling around the cape…it was still breaking everywhere. For sure a bit less than yesterday in gale force and 7m swell, but nothing you like to be in. So we went for […]
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Day 247, Monday, 21.09.2009

View northwest from Cape Leeuwin lighthouse…don’t think you can simply give it a wide berth…   mon mrng sw 30 to 40 knts noon sw 30 to 40  knts gusts 50 knts aft sw 25 to 30 knts  seas 4 to 6 mtr frm sw http://www.kayakweather.com/ Thanks, Karel, for your daily forecast via sat-phone! But […]
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Day 246, Sunday, 20.09.2009

  Some manageable swell and a good strong following wind to get pushed down the 65 km stretch to Hamelin Bay. Just what I needed…   I set out from the concrete launching ramp at Canal rocks very early morning, and again left some gelcoat on the concrete. 🙁 Canal Rocks today from the outside was way less […]
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Day 245, Saturday, 19.09.2009

  It looked like a calm, quiet day inside the shelter of Geographe Bay…for sure I knew getting around Cape Naturaliste would be a different sort of game! Wind forecast was low, under 10kn out of various directions, but still a 5m swell. It was ok and not too scary, as the ocean on top […]
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Day 244, Friday, 18.09.2009

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 […]
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Day 243, Thursday, 17.09.2009

My lovely Busselton hosts (out of Eagle Bay) Malcolm and Evelyn, plus Laurie and Sonia and her dad  Terry Bolland keeps on having a protective eye on me and my trip, and organized getting me out of my beach camp at Eagle Bay today. I was not really suffering anything there, but two weather days […]
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Day 242, Wednesday, 16.09.2009

  It was one of the most coldest nights of the trip! It was raining quite a lot, and when I was looking out of my tent next morning the lake and meadow was covered with thick fog…but the wind was very, very low! Forecasted were 10-20kn headwinds all day, but maybe it would stay […]
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