Israel Symposium 2007 Last week Justine Curgenvan and I headed off to Israel to the first open symposium organised by Hadas Feldman of Optimist Marine Equipment based in Hadera and hosted by Ehud and his son Yosale. http://www.optimist.co.il/
Do you think the world of sea kayaking was ready when Mother nature gave birth to Justine [...]
Entries from November 2007
November 30, 2007
November 29, 2007
Latest Update
29 November 2007
Just had an update from both Simon and Phil, two seperate telephone messages which I am not sure of the date of. I left my phone in Israel and only got it back today, 17 answer phone messages along with 65 emails, perched in amongst them all was a call from the [...]
Thank You Peter
November 27, 2007
Two days ago we met peter on an island in the middle of nowhere. he asked us to call him when we passed near his house. today we did and so we followed his instructions to paddle to ramena and ask for ali. Peter picked us up and arranged for us to stay in the [...]
Office du Tourismè
November 26, 2007
The office du tourismè in diègo suarèz have been a huge help. today we visited their offices with Peter. This is an amazing region of Madagacar with far more to see and do than we can possibly squeeze into our time.
coral reefs
November 26, 2007
we had to make a big divesion today to make it around an amazing coral reef due to the low spring tides
thieving crabs
November 26, 2007
Last night we left our pots and pans out as usual after dinner only to wake up in the morning to find Phils spoon missing. we have a good idea of the susspect and have supplied a photo ID.
25/11/07
November 25, 2007
25/11/07We left camp this morning hoping to round the most northerly point, but came across an unexpected sandbar which made things difficult, as we had to go a long way out to avoid the current it created. The sand bar was really beautiful, full of coral, fish and crystal clear water.We then managed to head [...]
news of phil & simon in north of madagascar
November 25, 2007
If you WANTED for two young man, lost in a small archipel in the north of Madagascar, who call NOSY HARA,
I found them for you….
I was just looking the sea to try to understand the place of man of the world…, very far from all the civilisation.
In fact you need 2 hours by car and [...]
24/11/07
November 24, 2007
24/11/07Set off north again today but were slowed down by head winds. Landed on a remote island to find a small adventure/climbing company set up there. They invited us into their campsite for the night and fed us, it was a fantastic place- www.newsearoc.com.May get around the north point tommorrow if the wind and tide [...]
23/11/07
November 23, 2007
23/11/07Yesterday we left Nosy be and did an open water crossing to a deserted island, we pitched camp there and saw amazingly big fruit bats flying around in the mango trees.Tommorrow we will cross back to the mainland.