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Jacqui Williams of Epic Australia reports: Freya’s boat left this morning  – very securely tied down on Terry Bolland’s car.  Terry is an Epic reseller in Perth through his shop Canoeing Down Under in Bassendean. Thanks Terry and those who went to great efforts to help us find a way to get it there. Thanks […]

  I couldn’t leave the beach before the water was at least there where it has been when I arrived – at the edge of the steep sandy beach. The sandy and muddy tidal flat needed to be flooded. The sound of the rushing in tide tried to keep me awake last night, until again […]

  The first light always has a magic effect on my body. Tiredness was gone, and I prepared myself to eventually make some progress towards Caesar Island! I took the chance to jump out of the boat to open my hatches for more food on a shallow reef edge, but not without having slipped into […]

Sam Marshall, manager of the Kuri Bay Pearl Farm, sending me off at 5am     I woke from the mutual alarm making noise all over the pearl farm at 4am. The workers start their day quite early! But I was ready to go anyway. I filled my water bags for the last 5 days […]

  25 km left to Kuri Bay…I had to paddle against the tide in this sheltered Port George IV area, and then through Roger’s Strait. But I rather left Umbanganan Island to the south, and paddled along the southern side of Augustus Island until it was time to cross Brecknock Harbour to head into Kuri […]

turtle slide and nest   I was looking at the a bit higher tide this morning as last night on landing, but it was still not really inviting.   There was another option…I could drag the kayak over the sand dune in the middle of the land spit to the other, more sheltered side and […]

The day started with paddling through Scott Strait – against the tide…it went slow, with 4 km/h only. As I was eventually through and passing Augereua Island and the tide should be turning, the wind started to bother me, coming from the bow quarter. Nothing about easy going today, the headwind was stronger than the […]

A note from Christopher Cuningham: The “Special Bulletin” I posted recently asking for help getting a new kayak to Freya generated a lot of comments about replacing Freya’s kayak halfway through the circumnavigation. I thought it well worth noting that the kayak Freya has been using from the start until now was a stock 18x Sport […]

  I was passing Krait Bay, and saw two small sailing yachts anchoring in there…another chance for fresh water resupply, but I didn’t need any…   Today the tide was not helping me much, it rather felt like it was breaking me down all day…strong beam winds messed up the sea, and it was quite […]

  I could hear the generator of the big vessel next bay up to my beach all night…time to sleep with earplugs again!   Destination today was Corneille Island, via Red Island on Cape Bougainville, Hat Point with it’s funny shape and a big fat tidal race. It was luckily running into the right direction […]