International Adventures – Night Paddling Chicago
One of the greatest aspects to being a paddler is how fun it can be to explore foreign places by kayak. Visit almost any city in the world and somewhere…
Category Archives: Travel
Kayaking the Palos Verdes Cliffs of Los Angeles
On my recent trip to Canada and the USA, I was fortunate enough to stop over in the city of Los Angeles for day between flights. I was able to…
Video Post: Paddling Magnificent Shoalhaven Gorge
For Team Fat Paddler the morning started before 4am, as Benno (TFP Adelaide), Mike and I loaded boats and set off on the 3 hour drive to the Southern Highlands….
Canoe Paddling in Algonquin Canada
Grab Life By The Shaft Tour Part 1 – Algonquin Canada It was amazing to see the difference 6 months makes to the seasons in Canada. When I was last…
Winter Fun in Thunder Bay Canada
After my whirlwind tour of Toronto the next stop on my Canadian adventure was the northern Ontario town of Thunder Bay. If I’d felt the cold in Toronto, I was…
Canoe Paddling in Toronto with Badger Paddles
My alarm went at off 6am, rousing me from a brief but deep sleep. I was in a hotel room in Toronto Canada, it was around -10C outside and my…
A Tropical Adventure – How to Anger a Fijian
I’d taken my family to Fiji for a Christmas break, where we were staying in a resort nestled amongst the forest on a tiny island separated from the mainland by…
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from Fiji
If you’ve noticed I’ve gone quiet this past week, it’s because I’ve taken the family on a little holiday to Fiji to relax after a full-on year. I’m writing this…
Exploring the Urban Beauty of Sydney by Paddle
As paddlers we spend a great deal of time exploring the outdoors but often concentrate on the natural world – waves, cliffs, beaches and wildlife. Often we forget that the…
Paddling Koh Samui Thailand with Grummett
As Team Fat Paddler were training hard for the upcoming Kayak for Kids paddling event, TFP paddler Grummett decided he’d take of with his family for three weeks of tropical…
Paddling Tahiti, OC styles
A mate of mine Doug, the surf photographer from WozThatYou.com, recently returned from a week’s holiday in sunny Tahiti. One thing that caught his eye were the crazy outrigger canoeists…
Searching for kayak camping destinations
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…
Exotic Paddle Locations – Bora Bora
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…
More Paddling Bear Glacier Alaska
I received an email out of the blue from Ron, the kayak guide from Backcountry Safaris who showed me around Bear Glacier on my recent travels to Alaska. He’d just…
