Hey friends...i'm very new to kayaking...just learning to roll...but the obsession is getting to me! I'm looking to outfit myself in my own gear (i'm learning in a friend's great boat). I'm looking forward to meeting lots of new people and having a ton of fun in this great sport. Please feel free to drop me a line with opinions about gear and stuff...I'm a 5'7" female, about 140lbs, looking for a cross between a playboat and a river runner. Any advice about a boat or gear is very welcome! Also,…
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Posted by Marianne on May 12, 2008 at 1:53am —
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Designed by Richard Sage from Bliss-stick and shaped into Production by Matt McCrossan, along with a vast crew who have worked hard behind the scenes producing this new innovative Playboat. The Smoothy is our answer to the Specialist 6'0 that we intended on doing, but as the new boat took its shape , it ended up having a whole new meaning to what we were doing, so the new Smoothy is far from the features of the wicked little Specialist 5'9.
The biggest attack was in the hull which is comparable…
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Posted by WakaWai on May 9, 2008 at 3:11pm —
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Less than 2 hrs by train from KUALA LUMPUR / Malaysia there is a world class creek : the SELANGOR RIVER with rapids up to grade 4. ( below: 'Second Canyon' )
To get there from KUALA LUMPUR is easy and cheap by commuter train to RAWANG, there change train to KUALA KUBU BHARU. From train station KKB take a taxi for 5 M$ to town or directly to the put in a bit below the SELANGOR dam.
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Posted by HALIM on April 29, 2008 at 10:30am —
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Return from Spain and Portugal.
The weather was cold and rainy and the water was too high for freestyle. But few spots worked sometimes, and i met new friends, and there are very beautiful places. Never been there before and love it.
Good trip.
Wait for more!
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Posted by Mikhail Ananyev on April 27, 2008 at 10:30am —
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For the past couple of weeks I have been reading and watching and dreaming about running Tallulah Gorge. My stomach was already in knots a week before the trip. I had to stop watching videos and reading blogs and info about the river because it was becoming an obsession. This is the biggest water I have been on not counting the Upper Gauley and we all know what happened there. So, I was really nervous but very excited to be running this beautiful creek.… Continue
Posted by Trent Thibodeaux on April 20, 2008 at 5:42am —
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Hello paddlers
Just thought I would let everyone know that my non-profit group the "Paddlers for Parts Association" has teamed with the folks from Harleys Hard Rock Saloon and we are raffling a Custom Made Chopper. Funds raised by this will be splint between the "Paddlers for Parts Association" and the "Center for Northern Families." With our share of the loot we will continue to promote Organ/Tissue donation and the paddling sports as an active and healthy life style. We will continue the push…
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Posted by Greg Loftus ( Cominco) on April 17, 2008 at 9:00am —
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The sun rose to clear the darkness and another glorious day started. Our stomachs were not on the happy side of life and things could have been better on that front. But this was the Zambezi and I could have thought of worse places to be at that point in time. Breakfast consisted mainly of bacon on a roll and by the time the first roll was finished the guides and their girlfriends had scoffed the rest. Nice one, we were getting our monies worth alright. Feeling a little disgruntled we headed off…
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Posted by Adrian Tregoning on April 13, 2008 at 11:24am —
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Hey... so for port authority went no so good, i get one of the forms they use for kayaking here, and guest what?? there was no information about the kayaks, it was only for foreign ships into Chilean sea... WTF!!!???, any way. we plan to do something closer... so now the plans go back again. Last time we went on a expedition it was on the Lago Azul, at the end of Ultima Esperanza fiord, where we also visit Erescano fiord, while we were on the Kirke boat. but it was just three days on rush, becau…
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Posted by Ro on April 12, 2008 at 3:14pm —
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I have been awaiting my squirt boat and due to some unfortunate delays it won't be ready to send my way now till Tuesday. Living north of the Mackenzie River has two drawbacks called freeze-up and break-up. Yellowknifes only road access crosses the mile wide Mackenzie River at Ft. Providence. Great spot to put in to paddle to the Arctic ocean but twice a year we are cut off from road access,in the fall we wait till their is enough ice for the ice bridge crossing and in the spring we lose the ice…
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Posted by Greg Loftus ( Cominco) on April 12, 2008 at 8:30am —
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Starting to Galicia. Going to spend there two weeks on freestyle spots on Minho
See you there!
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Posted by Mikhail Ananyev on April 11, 2008 at 7:47am —
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After our epic little Injusuthi trip it was time to get on the water again. Well, maybe not everyone and Dave had to unfortunately sit this one out as he had no boat! I felt for him and wished we had a spare boat for him to at least use as the level was looking very good.
Luke Longridge and I were joined by Ernest Vosloo, Chris Barichievy, Brendan Bosman, Adrian Vroom (aka Aqua Man), Neil O’Leary and Everd Vermeulen.. It was a full house of paddlers and usually one could take a play boat or riv…
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Posted by Adrian Tregoning on April 9, 2008 at 10:50am —
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We held the Reel paddling Film Festival on the 5th of April and had over 80 folks show up. This was the Paddlers sixth spring paddling festival and it was fun to do and our second best turn out ever. Radid media did a great job with the dvds and the whole package and we are pleased with the results.
We are now working on a raffle and hope to raffle off a custom made motorcycle for the longest day of the year. This is a pretty concentrated effort and as luck would have it the raffle guy for the c…
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Posted by Greg Loftus ( Cominco) on April 9, 2008 at 8:23am —
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Definitely, one of my greatest night, so far! A solo night ride on the lower Mangoky, last saturday night was certainly a nerving experience. it all started with a classic line of taking geologists out there for research.
Riding up the river with an engine was a challenge, with insidious sand bars and dead channels to get lost but that's the kind of stuff we manage and there was nothing that special.
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Posted by Gilles Gautier on April 8, 2008 at 9:01pm —
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Posted by Vraník on April 7, 2008 at 3:00pm —
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Ich habs nun geschafft, einen
Eventkalender hinzuzufügen – schaut doch mal rein und falls Ihr
interessante Termine wie Touren, Ausflüge und Events habt, lasst es mich wissen.
Schön wäre natürlich, wenn sich für die jeweiligen Touren und Anlässe
eine Menge Teilnehmer mobilisieren lassen ;-) Der Kalender kann auch direkt in
Google Calendar aufgerufen werden…
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Posted by Andreas Karz on April 7, 2008 at 1:00pm —
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THe charge crew went to colorado and the snow in 2007 was the goods. IT continued to rain late and Black Canyon became a option as well
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Posted by sprayer on April 5, 2008 at 3:24am —
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We at sr/hlp are trying to do something for television and that is introducing our wild sport as it really is on a day to day. Our sport is not pretty all the time , we are one of the dirtiest sports because we cant make much money in it. So we have to resort to the world of opportunity and that gets messy. We want to promote you the fellow kayaker. We hope some day we will have a say in the main money. JC SPrayer
:Above is Argentinian Fabian as he wheels high water posta azul blind.
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Posted by sprayer on April 5, 2008 at 3:00am —
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The scene was set. Luke Longridge, Dave Joyce and I would be heading down to the Thrombi X-Fest armed with three green Fluid Solo’s; one large, one medium and one small. Our mission would take us first to the Injusuthi River, then the following day to either the Waterfall Section on the Umzimkulu or, water permitting, the Polela and finally then the X-Fest at Thrombosis Gorge itself. It was assured to be a super duper weekend and water levels were predicted to be up.
The drive was uneventful an…
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Posted by Adrian Tregoning on April 4, 2008 at 4:40pm —
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The World Premier Tour of ‘Downunder the Horizonline’ is announced. We are hitting the road and showcasing our film around the world. Starting off with the Australian Tour.
* Tasmania, @ 7pm on the 2nd of April at UTAS, centenary building. Hobart, Tasmania entry is $10 ($8 concession). There will also be a screening of the last quality kayaking film X-tas to open the showing.
* Sydney 19th April-Australian Freestyle Nationals @ Penrith Whitewater Stadium-Free Entry.
* Canberra Wetspot Waterspor…
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Posted by Skippy Films on April 2, 2008 at 11:23pm —
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The Cartacay is a river in GA. it is really fun. the rapids get harder and harder. it's fun you should try it.
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Posted by Kayakjack on April 2, 2008 at 5:00pm —
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Click here to go to my gallery of Sea Kayaking
Have fun and enjoy
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Posted by Jogi on March 31, 2008 at 2:13am —
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100.000 years ago, the worst volcanic disaster that ever happened on earth, occurred on the island of Sumatra / Indonesia.
An explosion 1000 times more powerful than the one of Mt.St.Helens blasted 2000 cubic kilometers (!) of magma, tuff and ashes into the atmosphere. The ashes darkened the sun away for years and changed the climate of the earth...
The explosion left a huge hole in the earth - this chamber collapsed and filled with water during thousands of years to come. Lake Toba is the bigge…
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Posted by HALIM on March 30, 2008 at 6:30am —
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The latest episode of InBetween Swims (The Do-ing of the Thing) is now online! Chris Emery of KayakMind co-hosts!!
- Christy Dobson swims!
- Nate and Heather Herbeck talk about 'Toxic Waters'
- Epicocity's Andy Maser gets ready for a first descent on China's Angry River - the Sa…
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Posted by InBetween Swims on March 30, 2008 at 5:25am —
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In diesem Sommer ist paddeln in Kroatien angesagt. Am
27. Juli 2008 gehts mit dem Auto nach Porec und am
8. August 2008 wieder zurück.
Bin gerade die Tour am planen – es soll nicht nur gepaddelt werden, sondern auch ein bisschen
relaxen, schnorcheln, dolce far niente und Sightseeing soll nicht zu kurz kommen.
Den aktuellen Stand könnt Ihr in…
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Posted by Andreas Karz on March 29, 2008 at 11:30am —
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WaveDog Paddles.... Ever heard of them? If not, it is only a matter of time!
WaveDog Paddles is focused on bringing wood paddles back into the mainstream of whitewater kayaking. Free from corporate bureaucracy, their homegrown approach has resulted in a truly revolutionary product. From the bent shaft form lamination to the polymer coated blades. Finally, hand crafted bent shafts at prices comparable to mass produced composites.
WakaWai has been given the p…
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Posted by WakaWai on March 27, 2008 at 5:00pm —
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Here i go... on the post again, with little and no time, my training is decreasing now because i have too much work to do in the office, that's make it is impossible to paddle in the morning..IS NOT FEAR!!!....
But still... I'm just doing my best to make it happens, already went to the port authority to see where the journey's going??? To Diego de Almagro it's starting to be too difficult, they asking to do daily call 2 times a day??? what they think, because you're in a small boat you are ecce…
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Posted by Ro on March 26, 2008 at 10:00pm —
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www.qajariaq.blogspot.com
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Posted by Sgian Dubh on March 26, 2008 at 6:16pm —
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after a long wait i finally found a camera man and to top that one of my best runs on the tellico mind you this was just the second run i've ever done here..i have to thank james lock of knoxville for some great pictures well done james..cheers

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Posted by JCh2o " From The Biss-Stick Posse" on March 25, 2008 at 11:52am —
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This is an independent review that was sent to me from
Christine Boush.
She is the new Outdoor Recreation Coordinator for Spartanburg County, South Carolina.
I had a chance to hook up with her and a few others at the Tellico a couple of weeks ago for a demo.
She paddled the Mystic previous to this demo, but just wanted to make sure that it was the right creeker for her.
Thanks for taking the time to give feedback. Much appreciated!…
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Posted by WakaWai on March 25, 2008 at 11:30am —
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Well the day finally came and today was that day!
And what a beautiful day it was!
After an 18 month hiatus from kayaking, my wonderful wife, Greyson, finally got to get back in her kayak.
Her hiatus was due to the pregnancy and birth of our daughter!
She was like a kid in the candy store, shoving off from the shore, in her new…
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Posted by WakaWai on March 24, 2008 at 3:05am —
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put to sleep by a foggy eeriness

awakened by a beautiful morning
Opening d…
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Posted by Trent Thibodeaux on March 22, 2008 at 11:11pm —
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The second running of the Rock and Ice Ultra Extreme race is set to blast off Saturday the 22nd. and the Skidoo races will also be running on the big lake. Should make for a very interesting week-end and the extreme race is on until the 27th.
There will be a quiet break and then I'll be hosting the Reel Paddling Film Festival on April 5th. That is always a nice event getting us ice hound water hounds ready for what is only months away for us. Like they say at the theatre, Coming Soon to a river…
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Posted by Greg Loftus ( Cominco) on March 21, 2008 at 6:55am —
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After a very long wait, WakaWai finally gets it's
Mini Mystic demo.
One of only four in the U.S. as of now.
With the recent rain here in the Southeast, it will definitely be getting wet again this weekend.
Just in time for the Easter holiday!
Cheers!
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Posted by WakaWai on March 21, 2008 at 3:30am —
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The Cottonmouth Nose Plugs offer the latest in quality, design, and style. Higher gauge wire used for strength and durability. The wire is also covered, so the nose padding has something to bite into to keep from separating. Made to last longer and keep the water out of your nose during the worst thrashings! Made locally by Dinver McCl…
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Posted by WakaWai on March 21, 2008 at 2:26am —
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We are very happy to have Jeff Coleman become a part of WakaWai and look forward to building our future relationship.
Jeff grew up in Southern California making runs on the American with his uncle in 1986. For some reason, at that time, it didn't stick with him and Jeff turned his attention to golf. Jeff played golf in excess of 15 years whe…
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Posted by WakaWai on March 21, 2008 at 2:00am —
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BlackForest update ??? follow the
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Posted by Norganic on March 18, 2008 at 3:31pm —
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Are you the type of outdoors enthusiast who sees rampaging rapids and thinks, "I have got to jump into the middle of that"?
You might like to check out the line of kayaks from Bliss-Stick. The sleekly designed, compact crafts offer much-needed maneuverabil…
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Posted by JCh2o " From The Biss-Stick Posse" on March 18, 2008 at 2:43pm —
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The games brought a world of activity to Yellowknife and they finished tonight with a fine fireworks display. I haven't checked the details yet for medal results or to see who the overall winner was, but I'm sure the local paper Monday will have all the details.
The Multi Sport club and the crew of Organizers are now working hard to get the Rock and Ice Ultra Marathon on the road. This event takes place from the 22 till the 27th. I believe and it is the second time it is being held. They have an…
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Posted by Greg Loftus ( Cominco) on March 16, 2008 at 7:27am —
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So just gettign fit for doing a traverse in the patagonian fiords, 2 years ago we went into a 10 days expedition with Mariano and Hernan, into a 97 nautical milles, a full journey on the Obstruccion Fiord, south from Puerto Natales to the Skyring sound, with land crossing and lots of fun…
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Posted by Ro on March 13, 2008 at 5:30pm —
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I don't think work can get any more stressful, at least I hope not. I threw my hands up today and cut out early to head to the lower green for a late afternoon on the river. After the swim, two very unsuccessful roll sessions and job pressures, I was stiff in my boat. The way I bumped down the river showed just how uptight I was. About half way down I finally started to relax and enjoy the ride. It is amazing how much more responsive a kayak is when you are relaxed.
Bruce and I put in just befo…
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Posted by Matthew Alverson on March 12, 2008 at 9:00pm —
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This is the third day of the AWG in Yellowknife and things seem to be running smoothly. I met soon interesting folks so far from Alaska, Greenland and Russia.
The games are held every two years summer games one year and winter games the next. These games involve the Circumpolar countries of Alaska, Yukon, Greenland, Russia, Norway, Sweden, Finland,Saami People Nunavut , Nunavit and Northern Alberta.
As you can imagine they'e are a lot of new and interesting faces around town and meeting the folk…
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Posted by Greg Loftus ( Cominco) on March 12, 2008 at 5:36am —
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After another cramped drive through the outskirts of Barberton, up through the mountain pass which I have so many fond memories of as a child, through Nelspruit and finally we had arrived at the head of the Crocodile Gorge. A foreboding place to be. We had managed to get to the southern side, on a road between the railway line and the river. It had been decided that we would drive down a little to see what the river was about and to see how much water was flowing down. The river seemed placid an…
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Posted by Adrian Tregoning on March 11, 2008 at 8:14am —
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That was a long trip but the Young Guns team finally flew back to Mama Africa. 2 more months before they bag the journey and start editing their next opus. Can't wait to see the film, "African revolution".

Those guys drove me insane with the most intense behavior ever, ...…
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Posted by Gilles Gautier on March 9, 2008 at 6:14am —
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Great tripp at the Swiss side of the Lago Maggiore.
Tenero - Magadino - Vira - San Nazzaro - Ascona - Locarno - Tenero
Description with all facts and Fotos additional GPX Data for your GPA and a printable map with all waypointsyou can find on Google Maps
Open in Google Maps
You like this tripp? Let me know ;-) and if you want paddle this tripp…
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Posted by Andreas Karz on March 7, 2008 at 9:26am —
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[http://www.flickr.com/photos/chrismac/31508564/ ]
Hot Spring Island
Located in the Gwaii Haanas National Park, off the east coast of Moresby Island, these natural hot springs are a popular attraction, accessed only by floatplane, kayak or boat.
Moresby I…
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Posted by GuyThaLizard on March 6, 2008 at 7:30pm —
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Another early morning and Adrian Vroom arrived merrily at my house. Well, maybe not that merrily as mornings aren’t really his thing and he claims that ‘normal’ people don’t get up that early. Ha, we kayakers aren’t too normal anyway. Still he was as stoked as I was to be getting away from this horrible place they call Johannesburg and we left armed with two boats each. Our mission was to paddle the Steelpoort on the Saturday, then drive down to Vygeboom Dam and stay with a good mate of mine and…
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Posted by Adrian Tregoning on March 6, 2008 at 6:19pm —
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Commando Bay:

During World War II a special operations training camp was established briefly at a bay on Okanagan Lake south of Kelowna. That bay is now known as Commando Bay in recognition of the wartime activities that took place there. (http://www.okmilmuseum.ca/okmi…
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Posted by GuyThaLizard on March 4, 2008 at 11:00pm —
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After a long wait I finally got my production Fluid Element. The only downside is that I haven’t had the chance to paddle it yet! I have tried two prototypes but that’s it. So in the meantime I decided to throw up a few shots of the boat and in desperation do something in the swimming pool.
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Posted by Adrian Tregoning on March 4, 2008 at 8:07am —
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From what I had heard, the Sabie X-Fest hadn’t been on the calendar for quite some time. Certainly not since I had started paddling in 2004 there had never been one but I had heard some great carnage stories and tales of wild parties. It sounded like a full on weekend so we took to the road with a car full of full on people!
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Posted by Adrian Tregoning on March 4, 2008 at 8:06am —
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Just below Witbank Dam is a sweet, river wide drop known as Valletjies. Dropping cleanly for about four to five metres on river left and a variety of other lines in between. Centre is very meaty with a bad hole at the bottom and far right there are some class 5 lines. The suck back at the base is well around three to four metres and I’m not even sure it could be run. We decided to huck the clean drop on the left.
I got the sms from Karl around 13:00 and heard that they were opening 4 gates on t…
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Posted by Adrian Tregoning on March 4, 2008 at 8:04am —
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I’ve been paddling since April 2004 so not too long by most standards. Throughout the time I’ve been either a student or working and see myself as just a weekend paddler. I’ve paddled various rivers in South Africa, Sweden and Norway and also in Swaziland and Zambia. I’m not much of a play boater and prefer to run rivers, creeks and just chill on overnight trips. However I can still do a few tricks and enjoy playing although it’s not my favorite type of boating. Paddling a big wave is still an i…
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Posted by Adrian Tregoning on March 4, 2008 at 8:02am —
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The following morning we felt really hung over. Right, so maybe hung over doesn’t describe the feeling quite enough. We were close on death, awakening with dehydrated brains and regretting taking maximum advantage of the booze cruise! Now the puzzle pieces were shifting together as I fully understood why it was called the ‘baboon cruise’. With only about an hour or two to get ready for the start of our multi-day trip, things were not looking good. The next three nights were to be spent under the…
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Posted by Adrian Tregoning on March 4, 2008 at 8:00am —
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After three super days of paddling I decided to take a rest day. Muscle pain was increasing but at least my shoulder seemed to be holding out ok. Still, I wanted to take it easy, so while Luke decided to hit the river again, Marten and I visited Victoria Falls while Bart lazed around at Fawlty Towers.
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Posted by Adrian Tregoning on March 4, 2008 at 7:57am —
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Spring here is still a few months off but the daylight hours are increasing everyday and the sun is out lots which makes a big difference. Spring is around a few bends in the river yet but we are on the downriver side now . March came in pretty cool and can still get that way again before it is over. May will bring us water we can actually paddle in and that will be a hoot. I hope to have a few hours on my squirt in the pool by then. Summer here if anything li9ke last summer will be worth the wa…
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Posted by Greg Loftus ( Cominco) on March 4, 2008 at 12:48am —
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Who am I? I'm a Norwegian kayaker and have paddled for about six years. I come from the western outskirts of Norway, where the mountains are steep and the fjords are deep. I paddled about 150 trips in 2007 and I work as a raftingguide and kayak instructor in the summer. The rest of the year I'm studying to be a nurse in Trondheim. The area around Trondheim is very good for kayaking and I'm a member of the board in the student kayak club there.
I'm also a part of the Norwegian Dagger Kayak Team,…
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Posted by Oivind Kleppe on March 2, 2008 at 3:30pm —
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Neil and I woke up at 06:00 at Karl’s house. It was a warm, clear morning and the scene was set for a super relaxing day. We weren’t certain on the water levels but knew that it would be dropping. With some luck we’d have a good level. Only one way to find out and that was to take the short drive from Witbank down to the magnificent Kingdom Farm.
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Posted by Adrian Tregoning on February 29, 2008 at 10:14am —
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It had been raining for a few days already. The unusually overcast and miserable weather had been taking its toll on most people. We are not accustomed to such horrible weather for so long in South Africa. So it’s fair to say that when most people were wondering what had happened to the sun, we kayakers were wondering what was happening in the river valleys.
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Posted by Adrian Tregoning on February 29, 2008 at 10:12am —
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Just had to try out my new Coleman kayak today (Feb.28th, 2008) on Okanagan Lake.
Water was still a little cold but the temp outside was +10c. Beautiful spring day! Tomorrow, weather permitting, I will try out the Tandem.

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Posted by GuyThaLizard on February 29, 2008 at 6:00am —
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BULLER FEST IN ACTION AT THIS TIME AND OFF TO A GREAT START
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Posted by JCh2o " From The Biss-Stick Posse" on February 28, 2008 at 1:30pm —
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To get a taste go here...
News
or here... click on the picture and there will be a larger version appear.
Experience Bliss-Stick
Man that looks good!
Stay tuned for more....
Cheers.
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Posted by WakaWai on February 27, 2008 at 2:30pm —
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just had agreat time goin down the lyn and the upper on a three star weekend it was nuts low water a padle and teeth gt broken
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Posted by Munchie on February 23, 2008 at 2:54am —
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get a free 2008 creeking calender here
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Posted by ned on February 20, 2008 at 12:00am —
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Ben Kvanli, Olympic kayaker.is a season