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A note from Greg Barton of Epic Kayaks: We’re looking for somebody who can transport a kayak from Perth to Broome for Freya. Ideally, they’d deliver the new boat, spend a day with Freya assuring the boat is working to her satisfaction and then take her old boat back to Perth. Pass this on if […]

  For this day there was a crossing planned, over to Cape Bougainville. It was again quite some open water paddling, boring…   I left the Sir Graham Moore Islands south, as well as the Eclipse Islands. North Eclipse Island had a lovely sandy beach, and I was very much tempted to call it a […]

  I woke at 5am, and hurried to pack and to meet up with the vessel. I had switched my radio on again, and soon I heard the captain’s call if I was underway. Yes, I am, and it will take about 15 min more and I would be there!   The vessel has a […]

  I had a quiet night, and launched undisturbed in the morning out of that bay. I don’t like going into bays for the night, but sometimes it is the only chance.   There were actually quite some beaches again in the next wide bay, but all required some paddling off course.   I was […]

    I felt relaxed and refreshed that morning, happy to be in beautiful exciting scenery again and I was looking forward to another day of exciting water and a paddle close to the shore. Nothing is more boring than flat water and/ or paddling way offshore!   I was glad I found that campsite […]

  High tide was at 9.15, so I gave it a bit time this morning and updated my blog by pre-writing the entries. No posting possible…but when I had access, it would be quickly done. I was writing until 7.30, when I felt the urgent need to pack and to GO now. If the tide would still […]

  I woke very early in the morning, my body still on NT time. I felt all sorts of pains and aches from the previous two days, but it was too inviting to get a good push from the wind in the right direction today. So no rest day allowed…   The destination for the […]

  At about 4am with at least not being pushed back with the ingoing tide, I deployed my sleeping floats like on the BIG crossing, and crunched forward for a deeper nap. It lasted about ½ hr, then the seas became that big I got frequent splashes in the face and didn’t feel like resting […]

  I measured the distance if I would cross the Joseph Bonaparte Gulf *now* instead of heading one day more south…it was 105 km to Pelican Island, where I planned to land. That sounded like a reasonable distance for an overnight paddle!   I decided to give it a go across today. What was one […]

FAT CROC passing by my beach     The mother ship was gone next morning…probably operating with the tides and headed in the early morning to Port Keats, I assumed.   I was just ready to launch, the tide was going down, as I spotted a “reef rock” starting to expose itself out of the […]