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Day 294, Saturday, 07.11.2009

Greg spent the day in “town” again, chatting to Dave at the Eucla weather station. He tried to decide with a mixture of local knowledge, our internet 7-days longterm forecast on buoyweather combined with Karel Vissel’s regular sat-phone weather meassages which may be the best two days and the night to tackle the last set of cliffs, […]
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Day 293, Friday, 06.11.2009

One more try to beat the upcoming strong heawinds of the day…I launched again in moonlight at 3.30am. But today the wind freshened earlier and stronger, and I gave up in disgust at 9am. 25km only, but better than no progress. Still the landings were easy, and the water was calm. But the headwind is […]
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Day 292, Thursday, 05.11.2009

Breakfast on the seaweed to avoid getting drifted backwards The moon was bright in the second half of the day, and I decided I’d like to give it a pre-dawn start at 3am to avoid the stronger headwind on the second half of the day. Winds were ok with 10-15kn se in the morning, but […]
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Day 291, Wednesday, 04.11.2009

I actually can’t remember much about that day besides being another easy 70 km paddle along a sandy reefy beach with low following wind. I could land easy for a pee or for some snacks on piles of seaweed.     Greg drove down the track to Noonaera, where there were some ruins and a […]
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Day 290, Tuesday, 03.11.2009

  This morning the sea was down, and the wind was low, so perfect to get going again. The paddle along the beach was actually fairly easy, though I had to negotiate lots of onshore reefs. But they didn’t had much of an offshore break, as the swell remained low, and the sea calm. The […]
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Day 289, Monday, 02.11.2009

Text message from Freya via satellite phone: No paddling today. 20 to 25 knot beam wind would have left me aiming into the wind to avoid being drifted in toward shore. Had to heal a sore sitbone, too.
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Day 289, Monday, 02.11.2009

  The van was shaking all night from the strong wind, despite us parking behind the dunes in the bush. I stuck my nose out of the van for a pee this morning, and was hesitating to get going, wondering if the whipped up sea from the continuous very strong southerly wind was worth the […]
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Day 287 + 288, Sat + Sun, 31.10. + 01.11.2009

  Day 288: I felt recovered enough to give it a go again today. Landings would be easy, and I estimated I should be able to make it at least to Eyre, where there was a bird observatory Greg was already passing on his way out to Twilight Cove.   The wind was a 25 […]
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Day 286, Friday, 30.10.2009

Warming up in the van after 35 hrs of paddling. I’m texting the daily message to Karel n the sat phone   The moon set at about 2am, but the stars shone a bit brighter then to make still a bit of lit night. Actually, when the moon was still out, barely any star was to […]
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Day 285, Thursday, 29.10.2009

  I slept well all night after the thunderstorm settled around 8pm. The morning had a clear sky, some friendly strong south-westerly’s and an again quite lifted surf. I felt more scared to paddle safely out through the surf rather than doing the long paddle along the cliffs!   I raised at 4am, with first […]
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