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Text message from Freya: 37.29 140.00, Beachport. 75 km, 5:00 a.m. to 8:30 pm. A mostly calm day aside from the last three hours of moderate headwinds. After Robe a big swell was breaking on the reefs – stay away! After Nora Creina I paddled about 10 km inside the reef, until it was unprotected again.

The last Coorong Beach day! Everyday the surf got lower, and actually, this morning there was not much big surf at all any more. It was still a wide line of breakers, but they were tiny this morning, and temporary on a lull it was even showing up almost a smooth surface.   The forecast […]

(Picture by Rose Fletcher)   It was a dark and rainy morning, with some onshore wind going. The wind was supposed to go down a bit the next hours, and hopefully the sky would be clearing up as well. I launched through the dreaded 7-8 surf lines in a start and stop technique, but with […]

(Picture by Rose Fletcher) Launching time was set for about 6am, so we had to get up at 5am to arrange the last bits and pieces I’d take with me on the boat. The forecast was fortunately for light quartering headwinds, breezing up to under 15 kn in the afternoon. It was the same for […]