Four years ago Marcus Choy paddled up to me when I was surfing at Pillar Point in northern California and said, “You guys have GOT to go to New Zealand. I told them all about you.” Sure enough, Coastbusters Sea Kayak Symposium organizer Paul Hayward contacted me shortly thereafter and invited the Tsunami Rangers to […]
Sea Kayaking Destinations
Sea Kayaking in New Zealand, part one
Our winter is New Zealand’s summer. After being invited to present a show at Coastbusters Kayaking Symposium in Auckland last year, Jim Kakuk and I could not resist. So, on February 15th, 2010, we hopped an Air New Zealand flight to Aotearoa, the Land of the Long White Cloud. After a long and terrible plane […]
What about Baja?
“To find the Baja of myth and legend, one must do what adventurers have always done—travel light and fast and beyond the creature comforts of so called eco-tourism.” Kenny Howell, veteran Sea of Cortez kayak explorer and guide Over two decades ago I made the kayaker’s pilgrimage to the Baja peninsula in northwestern Mexico to […]
Paul Caffyn’s THE DREAMTIME VOYAGE – A Review
It’s not too soon to think of Christmas, for two reasons. First, what do you get the kayaker who has everything? How about an autographed copy of Paul Caffyn’s The Dreamtime Voyage: Around Australia Kayak Odyssey, 25th anniversary edition, published in 2010? The other reason to think of Christmas is Paul set out on his […]