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Day 183, Sunday, 19.07.2009

  Tha eagle was not willing to let go of his fish, even when I was coming close…     There were 75 km left to Port Hedland, and I was ambitious to get there today! This would mean paddling into the night, but although nobody was expecting me I knew where I wanted to […]
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Day 182, Saturday, 18.07.2009

  Today was the crossing of the wide bay towards Poissonnier Point, quite an uneventful paddle on flat water. I had to stay out quite wide, as the water before the Inlet was very shallow, and high tide was still 3 hrs away!   I was tempted to pull into shore already at the last […]
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Day 181, Friday, 17.07.2009

  The long cliff line next day was again changing to more sand and dunes, and eventually Cape Keraudren showed up in the distance.   There were quite some cars and vans around, and I believe there must have been even an “official” campsite somewhere. But as I didn’t need anything and liked to go […]
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Day 180, Thursday, 16.07.2009

      We loaded my kayak on the car the previous night, to be ready to go at 5.30, and launching at first light. It will be about 2 ½ hrs after high tide then, and with my wheels hopefully still no problem to get out to the water.   Kate drove me to […]
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Day 179, Wednesday, 15.07.2009

Kate Schubert and her team were way more friendly welcoming me than this old sign, put up by the previous farm manager, would make you think…thanks!   I’m having a nice day off with blog updating and fixing my gear. I’ll like to launch tomorrow 2-2 1/2 hrs after high tide (3.30am) in first light, just […]
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Day 178, Tuesday, 14.07.2009

This morning I felt confident when I saw the water in the not too far distance at 7am I could wheel out directly fully without wheeling along the shore first…this is what I tried… I noticed after about 30% of the distance the full load on the trolley was too much for the softer getting ground, […]
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Day 177, Monday, 13.07.2009

Paddling on liquid mud… Same game this morning…this time I made all 10 km wheeling along the beach in one rush in the morning – getting fitter in the sore arse and thights muscles! 🙂 Eventually I waswheeling out – and waiting again for the tide to come! It was blowing like hell offshore, and […]
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Day 176, Sunday, 12.07.2009

“Coastal canoe Hiking” (Küsten-Kanu-Wandern, greetings to Udo Beier…) That’s no water in the background, just sand and mud flats…the water was not visible any more. Simply GONE.   As I had bad luck the tide was low in the morning and at night, and high around noon, I either had the option to launch or […]
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Day 175, Saturday, 11.07.2009

Big hole from the shark bite on the top of the stern besides the “.” of the “com”, a dozen smaller holes on the side on the ACR sticker, and a shark tooth was stuck over the “m” in the toggle gap. Quite some jar size…   This was the plan for the day: Getting […]
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Day 174, Friday, 10.07.2009

  I checked on the low tide rushing in all morning, and found a full sandy gap to the water which may have stayed sandy all low tide through!!! There is always a gap in the rocky reefs, but you simply just can’t see it from the water or even from high up the dunes until […]
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