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Paddling South Georgia

November 10th, 2005

In true Sir Ernest Shackelton spirit, a bunch of kiwis decided to paddle around South Georgia Island in a kanoe

Here’s a map for those of you who have no idea what I’m talking about.

Despite being a desperately remote group of islands, South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands have quite a history .

Here’s a nice bit of trivia for ya

The islands were initially named “South” Sandwich Islands to distinguish them from the then “Sandwich Islands” now known as “Hawaii”

I’ve always wanted to visit sub-antarctic islands for various reasons (paddling would be nice, skiing and scuba diving even nicer) but I imagine staying there for any extended period of time must be hell.

Here’s a great resource to start exploring South Atlantic and Sub-Antarctic Islands

Gone diving – Fiesa

November 07th, 2005

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Yesterday three of us decided that rain and waves generated by the Bora wind weren’t a good enough reason not to dive.
This was actually the first time I went diving here in Slovenia, if you can believe that, and I was pleasantly surprised. Not so much by the lousy visibility (2-5m) but by the amount of things to be seen down there.

I saw my first ever sea dragon and tons of other stuff. Even a sewage pipe (not in use at the time).

None of the pics really came out the way I wanted. The damned thing kept moving

Here’s a map of the dive although we went further left, waaaay off the map but the most interesting part of the dive was probably right there.

Across Australia on a bike

November 02nd, 2005

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Jakub Postrzygacz desided that regular mountain biking routes just aren’t any fun so he set himself a challenge – cycling the Canning Stock Route in western australia across three deserts, nine hundred steep sand hills and to top it all there’s no decent supply of food or water and no safe way of escape for nearly 2.000 kilometers.

This isn’t just any old route and you can tell that just by looking at his bike that rolls on 4 inch!! wide tires (regular MTB sizes are 1.8-2.3) to float on sand rather than sink. It would be completely impossible to do this on regular wheels unless you want to push 90% of the way.

CSR has been marked out nearly 100 years ago
by Alfred Canning to drive the cattle from Perth to the
opposite corner of the continent. However, the
conditions were so harsh and casualties so high that
CSR never truly served its purpose and was forgotten.
In 1968 a group of surveyors for the first time drove
the complete length of the track with specially prepared
motor vehicles. Despite numerous attempts, no-one
has ever cycled CSR…

Insane…