Kayak & Bushwalking Trip Reports

Farmhouse Creek/Judds Cavern Walk - when Farmhouse Creek was in flood

My first attempt to circumnavigate Tasmania - May 1999 trip from Hobart to Port Davey & return- "heading back down to south-west cape, well offshore, I lost sight of land in thick mist, 10m swells and gale force n/w wind. I thought to myself "This can't be good!"

My solo circumnavigation of Tasmania by sea kayak - November 1999 - starting from Pirates Bay - heading anti-clockwise

My second solo circumnavigation of Tasmania - November 2001 - different weather and many different landing points - starting and finishing from Hobart - paddling anti-clockwise

Sea kayak circumnavigation of Tasmania - Feb 2007 - my fastest trip

Bruny Island in a day (142km in 18.5hrs) March 1, 2001

Bass Strait Crossing - Feb 2001

Paddle from Huonville to Hobart

Frenchmans Cap walk

Precipitous Bluff - kayak & walk - Trip Report January 2008

Precipitous Bluff - kayak & walk - Trip Report March 2005

Port Davey Track - December 2007

Overland Track - July 2006 - with side trips up Barn Bluff & Mt Ossa

Federation Peak summit in under 48 hours (from 1997 - but I only just found my old trip report from then)

West Coast Walk 2008 - sea kayak down West Coast to drop off food supplies to be followed by a walk from Hells Gates to Cockle Creek

Other peoples trips:

The first circumnavigation of Tasmania by Sea Kayak - John Brewster & Earl Bloomfield- 1979

Steve Dineen's sea kayak circumnavigation of Tasmania - February 1998 - Steve's trip was the inspiration for my trip. It gives you an insight into the mental & physical suffering that this trip inflicts

Steve Dineen and Lester Nation's Bass Strait Crossing - March 1998

Ed Gillet - California to Hawaii

Ed Gillet - Paddling Free