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A message from Freya: I’ll be giving a talk and Q & A session in the Yacht Club in Victuor Harbor on Dec 3rd, 7.30 pm (as I did in Perth). I’d be happy to have plenty of people join me for the evening and talk about everything you ever liked to know about me and […]

I left late after I felt like I didn’t need to get up early for that short 25-km hop planned for the day. I pretended that it was my rest day…actually, yesterday should have been off and not plugging into that strong headwind. So I fell asleep again after waking as usual at 5 am… […]

Misery Bay mishaps? I should have rather stayed dry than taking 7.5 hrs for ridiculous 25 km into Avoid Bay/ Misery Bay. It really needs a certain amount of stubbornness, stupidness, stamina, strengh and skills to paddle into 15 knot (1hr in the morning) to 20-25 kn headwinds.   Seas were steep, nearing Point Whidbey […]

The pic hasn’t much to do with the day…we found this pleasantly useful truck in Fowlers Bay   Not much to say about this day…my short message says it all. Boring slog, to reach the beach on the headland. Two crayboats were anchoring offshore, I saw their lights. I put up camp in very last […]

I was determined to make it to Drummond Point today, and woke therefore early at 4.30am. But all I saw outside were fat flashes of lightening, continuously, and it was some rain coming up. The thunder was not far away at 5am, and I guessed no way I’m paddling in such weather, I’ll better turn […]

I slept allright in my tent that night, jst had to use my ear plugs again to easy my mind off the surf noise. It was probably better, as next morning, looking out of my tent, I noticed the swell and surf had lifted quite a bit! Shit, I should have taken that possibility into […]

Bye, bye, Greg and van! see you in 16 days… We had to say good bye to each other for 16 days…Greg would be driving 800 km south-east, parking the van at Rose Fletcher’s house. Thanks for that offer, Rose! She would be then driving Greg to Adelaide airport, from where he is flying back […]

The launch from the beach close to Cape Bauer was via very shallow reef water. I had to drag my boat into the raising sun for a while, until I could sit in it and paddle off. The paddle around Cape Bauer was nothing compared to what we saw yesterday from the top, as the […]

I had my doubts to go at all today, but that short 30 km crossing was kind of sheltered, despite the strong 15-20 kn south east headwind, and my boat is still empty. It was some plugging, but still on flat water. But I didn’t feel like going around Cape Bauer today or even Point Westall, as the […]

I had two reasons today to get going early and to race myself on glassy flat water: The afternoon sea breeze (headwind) was supposed to be very strong with 25 kn, and Greg and I liked to watch an opera performance of “Carmen” in Ceduna, starting at 6pm. We had to kick ourselves out of the […]