A Tale of Two Paddles (Part 2) – Peaceful Meanders
(Continued from Part 1) Both wet from our respective spills, Timbo and I paddled up to Bantry Bay in search of warmth and a hot cup of black gold from…
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A Tale of Two Paddles (Part 1) – Thrills and Spills
Adventures always seem to start when you least expect it. Over the ANZAC weekend I was due to paddle & camp out in the Shoalhaven Gorge wilderness area, but sickness…
Another Pittwater Dawn and Grumm Gets a Rocket
The weekend had been exciting for Grumm. He had permission from the Minister for War & Finance to buy a kayak, and with the Sydney Harbour Kayaks ex-rental sale on,…
Early morning paddles on Pittwater
There’s something magical about Autumn dawns, and with that in mind I left home at 5am for a paddle on Sydney’s beautiful Pittwater. Arriving before 6am, I was able to…
Paddling the Hawkesbury At Midnight
A busy weekend schedule meant no paddling unless I could get one in late at night, so I contacted paddler mate Ned, the engine room of the Team Fat Paddler…
Plane Spotting on Botany Bay
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…
Team Fat Paddler conquers Middle Head
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 Fun in Sydney’s Big Wet – Waterfall Paddling
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…
Team Fat Paddler getting amongst the lumps
It’s incredible how much difference a week makes! On week 2 of training for TFP, we changed to composite boats from Sydney Harbour Kayaks and head off for Grotto Point…
Making friends on the water – Tim Kennings
It never ceases to amaze me the way things happen. Like today’s paddle, which started out solo and ended up with a long social paddle with a stranger and a…
Maiden Paddles for Gracie Aged 3
During my recent Christmas break, I was lucky enough to spend a week on the glorious Sunshine Coast in beautiful Queensland. Fellow paddler Darryl (otherwise known as @ireckon, or “that…
Video: Learning to roll Day 3
To help me reinforce the success of day 2, I decided to head straight back out the following day for another rolling session. I have to admit I struggled a…
Video: learning to Roll Day 2
An early but gorgeous paddle on Middle Harbour with paddling mate JF Englert kicked off just after 6am as the sun was coming up. At the end of it, we…
Video: Summer paddling on Sydney Harbour
A lot of my online paddling mates from the northern hemisphere have been whining recently about Winter’s intrusion on their paddling, the freezing over of lakes, and generally bloody cold…
