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Day 193, Wednesday, 29.07.2009

  I got a text message from Alan Melville, he would be waiting form me at Onslow and had even booked a campsite for both of us! Nice, thannks, Alan!   So a half day’s paddle, and a hot shower, laundry, shopping, company and some good food is waiting! Not too bad for a lonely, […]
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Day 192, Tuesday, 28.07.2009

  Another island day, Pup Island, Great Sandy Island, East Island, Middle Mary Island, Large Island, West Island, False Island, Little Rocky Island, North Mangrove Island, all passing them closer or just seeing them from the distance. All of them were quite flat, so I could barely make them out on approaching only about 12 […]
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Day 191, Monday, 27.07.2009

Island after island were passing by in the closer or further distance.   Fortescue Island, Mardie Island, Sholl Island, Round Island, Long Island, Middle Passage Island, Angle Island, Passage Island, but it was actually simple open water paddling with some strong to nice following winds.   I noticed on almost every island passing by closer […]
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Day 190, Sunday, 26.07.2009

The forecast fort the next days was quite strong south-easterlies! I got up, and felt they were more easterly than southerly, so quite pushing!! No way having some days off…I felt refreshed from the short day yesterday, and was looking forward to the nice challenging paddle.   Alan was not surprised I rather felt like […]
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Day 189, Saturday, 25.07.2009

I noticed the previous night in last light, the Searipple Passage is dry on low tide, even for my kayak. As I was much worn out from that last day’s crossing, I was happy to start late and to take a slow, easy paddle for the last 15 km Dampier.   There, I would meet […]
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Day 188, Friday, 24.07.2009

Cape Lambert Industrial Art – loading pier for huge ships for iron ore I was wheeling out again early morning, hoping no one would be bothered by me camping down at the town beach. The paddle around Cape Lambert showed quite some interesting “industrial art”, but I felt like I was inhaling the red dust […]
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Day 187, Thursday, 23.07.2009

Another piece of wreck I was passinng on launching from Depuch Island…   The paddle across Sherlock Bay was nothing special, just another (boring…) flatwater day, but after a long phone call to Greg with some not too exciting news I regained my energy to paddle hard the last leg and decided to rather make the 60 […]
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Day 186, Wednesday, 22.07.2009

Not the “red”, but a carpet rolled out for me at the campsite at Depuch Island   Destination today was Depuch Island!   I got out with catching some water in the cockpit on a dumper over the now flooded reef, but I was out safely! I was dragging the boat down the cliffs again […]
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Day 185, Tuesday, 21.07.2009

  A meeting with an other kind of kayaking…     Sheree dropped me at the beach at 6am, and another paddling day was starting… It took quite a while to get off the noisy harbour of Port Hedland, but eventually I was in my quiet flat water environment again. It is quite boring, paddling flat […]
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Day 184, Monday, 20.07.2009

  Ice cream shop in South Hedland…greetings to Janny’s Eis! 🙂     I woke as usual at 5 am, and packed my things to get off the sandbank. I was not sure if this one would stay dry on the next high tide, and I wanted to be off public view anyway. Plus chances […]
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