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  I was launching all right next morning, the steep downhill dragging of the fully loaded boat was not that tough. The goal was to reach Cape Dombey for that day. I can’t remember much of the paddle, quiet winds, nothing special, just a bit boring…   Late afternoon I saw some motorboats along the […]

  Carol and John’s friendly beach house before Bulgul. Kayakers welcome!      John’s overnight repair on the hole in my boat looked successful. He used epoxy filler and covered the whole thing with some magic silver tape. Just hope it holds up my frequent dragging over the beaches!   I was ready to go at […]

Two fat fresh turtle slides close besides my camp!!! No croc slide, I was wrong… I had a wonderful long night’s sleep, knowing I won’t have to get up next morning, as I liked the hole in my boat dry out in the sunlight for a while. I turned around again and again, until the sun […]

  no sunset – sunraise at 6am!   The first light woke me, and I noticed I was sitting high and dry on the rocky reef, but the channel with still deep water was only 20 m away!!! The path to the deep water were only flatish reef rocks with few shallow pools, and I simply […]

  Mike Ashton was driving me back to the surf club launching site. Thanks, Mike!   I decided to launch at midday with the outgoing high tide, and hoping once paddled around Charles Point and the tide turned the ingoing tide into Bynoe Harbour would help me again.   Plus I wanted to check on […]