Chinese New Year festivities include the incredible spectacle of Dragon Boat racing, a colourful race where crews of 20 sprint for about 90 seconds in a blur of colour, beating…

Over the past month I’ve been thinking alot about kayak camping. Not the type where you drive with a house-load of crap to a caravan park with a kayak on…

Having spent Saturday night rocking-out at an AC/DC concert with good friends, a sunday paddle was always going to be a little hard. But somehow I managed to get the…

When Team Fat Paddler take on the Kayak for Kids event in March, the 18km route has one section that could prove tough, and that section is a rocky outcrop…

Big thanks to the Twitter paddling community (and @ncoutlander in particular) for bringing this cute little video to my attention!  Now the million dollar question is… should the Fat Paddler…

I can’t say I’ve ever met a paddler I didn’t like, it’s such a great community of people sharing a passion for the outdoors. So it is really saddening to…

Last weekend I had the pleasure of taking out my new Adanac Paddles for their first trial on Sydney Harbour.  This pair of paddles – a full length Greenland paddle…

It’s funny how some of the best paddling days start off with low expectations. With Sydney being deluged with water and hit by waves of big blowy storms, I really…

After a week in snowy Chicago (brrr!), I’ve finally arrived back home in Sydney, with my new custom made Adanac Paddles. I’ve had these for a week but hadn’t opened…

Over dinner tonight Mark, a Chicago-based colleague of mine, mentioned to me that I’d inspired him to go paddling during a recent family vacation to the French island of Bora…

As a kayaker, I feel incredibly close to the waters I paddle in and the life within it. There is no doubt that paddling has made me into an environmentalist,…