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   Destination Crowdy Head – I noted on my map „fishing harbour“, but haven’t had that really on my mind when I came around the headland…so the pleasure was great to see an easy landing inside a quite developed little harbour. Plenty of dolphins were playing in the lagoon besides the harbour. Beautiful!   Just […]

  Another one of those luxurious paddling days – flat water, gentle rolling swell, nicely following winds…Elizabeth Bay was the destination. Leaving Fingal Bay I was passing through some smaller islands and left the Broughton Islands to my left.   I had to stop at Seal Rocks to pick up a parcel from the post […]

The first pleasant paddle after all those rough days! What a relief! Gentle rolling swell still, but no more breakers on the open water…and amazingly all Bluebottles are gone as well, as the rain is…yahoo! So despite a relatively late start at 8am (I was fiddling with my steering system…) I could reach my destination […]

  This was supposed to be the last rough paddle day – for now. The seas should go down tomorrow. You simply can’t stand to paddle a longer distance than 40 or 50 km in such conditions, your concentration is gone after 7 or 8 hours.   I had a late start anyway, launching at […]

Henry van der Kolk (my host in Terrigal) and Paul, owner of Mirage Sea Kayaks, adding an electrical pump to my current epic 18x sport sea kayak.   On my way along the Victorian and NSW caost I was frequently hosted and assiste by enthusiastic OZ sea kayakers and other lovey people. I couldn’t have done without them, […]

  Rain squall, raising the wind speed from 5bft to 6-7 bft The passing yachts in Broken Bay were fighting the wind more than I was affected by it, as it came today right from behind. I felt more suitable in those conditions in my little seaworthy kayak than the big yachts. One of the […]