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Message via satellite phone. 11.21 132.55 De Courcy Head  60km 7 to 5.5 found a petrified penis, 3 m high! A touch too much for now, though desperate…   From my last campsite on the Macquarie Strait I cut across Aurari Bay to Brodgen and Gningarg Point. This was the easy part of the day, […]

I was happy I didn’t need to pull into Warruwi on Goulburn Island, although David Winkworth already organized a local contact to look after me. But it would mean a detour, and too early to stop already for the night. I’d rather stick to the mainland and was heading for White Point, but decided turning around […]

I need to take more notes to be able to remember all those different paddling days – about this one I remember (besides frequent airplane traffic, as amazingly allover from Nulunbuy to now!) that at about 10am a boat came up to me from behind with four Aboriginal rangers, taking pictures from me without asking…I […]

The long crossing of Bocaut Bay was not too exciting, besides the hard bump into my stern shortly after launching! I turned around and could make out the fin, before he dived away with a big splash! Obviously not content with the taste of fibreglass… Skimish Point had a bit of a reef and tidal […]

Thanks a lot to everybody for all the good wishes and notes for my birthday! So many people all over the world following – it’s really overwhelming!!!   I took the chance of that birthday’s morning to do some phone calls to my family and friends- partly cell, partly sat-phone, as the internet wa patchy on […]

I can’t remember anything special on that day’s paddle, way offshore again, crossing directly over from Galiwinku to Yabooma Island.. The only “special” was that due to strong spring tides I couldn’t make it in daylight – daylight is here from 6.30 am to 6.30 pm only. So there was no other chance than to […]

Through Stretton Strait around the northern top of Elcho Island was quite a nice paddle!! Two small aboriginal communities are on the north end, and I paddled through a shallow reef abeam one of Gawa. It made worth the bit of detour. But then the long paddle along the wide bay on the northern side of Elcho […]

Looking into the maps together in Nhulunbuy, I got the advise to better avoid Cadell Strait, too mangroovy and too many crocs…so I decided to rather go around the outside of Elcho Island, a tad bit longer only, I guessed… The tides were playing up that much out on the way crossing all those funny […]

I felt enough recovered after the crossing to give it a go again after four days in Nhulunbury! Probably due to Kera’s massage the last day as well…she did a great lenghy workout on me! Thanks! I would love to have a picture taken of that job, but it was a private session… :-)) All sores […]