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Progress Report 10/27/07 Saturday – updated by Freya 28.10.07

Forecasted weather from Karel Vissel: Sat mrng s 4bft noon s 4 to5 bft aft s 4 to5bft seas 2.90mtr from se Sun mrng s 3bft noon e 2bft aft e 2 to3bft seas going down to 2mtr from se dir mon tru thu looks good nw winds 3bft seas around 1mtr Satellite text message […]
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Progress Report 10/26/07 Friday – updated by Freya 27.10.07

      Satellite text message from Freya 10/26/07: (Updated by Freya 27.10.07)   S41.12 E174.18 Okukari Bay near entrance of Tory Channel. Started paddling 7.40 am, smoking catabatic SW following winds off French Pass/ Admirality Bay, pretty rough stuff! Tide was turnig to follow at 8.30am that day.   Not much "real" surfing, as […]
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Freya is on her way!

  Freya has started her circumnaviation of the South Island of New Zealand.   I’ll provide some of the satellite phone text messages received from Freya during her travels, to keep you informed of her progress.   Thanks, Greg! I am missing you on this trip…but I will do my way solo this time. We […]
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Recovering at Paul Caffyn’s house

  Paul Caffyn, myself, Paul’s trip partner for Greenland,Conrad, and Greg Stamer on Paul’s lecture in Reijkjavik/Iceland, one day before Greg and I finished our Iceland circumnavigation   My shoulder and therefore the spirit to get going is getting better day by day, but the weather isn’t quite following up…last night Paul’s house was shaking […]
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I’m in New Zealand!

Ok, I’m here. 33 exhausting hrs of a quiet flight, but two hours before I touched base with NZ territory in Auckland first, I was grounded already for some days… :-(( I forgot to ask Air NZ for a sponsorship for keen circumnavigational kayakers providing a comfi buisiness or first class seat and (as usual…) […]
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New Zealand – yes, I am going.

Where? Around New Zealand’s South Island  When? October 2007 -???   With whom? Solo.    Kayak: NDK Explorer     Paddles: Epic wing blades    Paddling clothes: Kokatat & Reed    Spray Deck: Snapdragon    Bits and pieces: North Water    Neoprene-Boots: Chota    Helmet: Sweet    Map case: [...]
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Just a tease from the Blue Lagoon in Iceland…

Wish I would be there now…but I am busy working … Good rememberings of the last day of our Iceland trip! The Blue Lagoon is a pure relaxing oasis. Great for sore kayaking bodies! Actually, after being back to Germany I had to jump directly deep into my buisiness again, barely editing some pics from […]
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Done! Around Iceland 2007

We are done!   33 days, 25 paddling days, 8 weather days, 1620 km, 65 km average… Those are the numbers which just don’t say much about the experience and impression we’ve got…but I’ll take my time soon to update the rest of the trip and edit and upload some pictures! A slide show will […]
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3rd Internet acces in Iceland

Hi, there!   We are weatherbound again… :-(( If someone asks me later what was the hardest part of this trip…for me it were those days off due to stormy weather…I felt like a bondaged racing horse…not that we are not paddling over force 5, but when it comes to 7 or more, better stay […]
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2nd internet access in Iceland

Hi! This is Freya again…   Sure, we are not looking for internet every night, as usually lighthouses on headlands don*t provide much of that luxury, but on Monday night we needed to turn into the small village of Bakkagerdi to spend obviously two or three days weather bound. It is really stormy here! Force […]
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