- “So you’re up in the Arctic examining glaciers and ice-shelves for signs of climate change, and you need to move your kayaks from the mother ship to the ice shelf 50 kilometers away. Good thing you’ve got a helicopter!” [via Kayak Yak]
- “A trip down the Colorado River’s Barrel Springs Rapid goes a bit haywire when one of the kayakers loses his paddle”. [via Outside Blog]
- Stumbled this on YouTube. A random clip of a friendly seal jumping aboard a kayak in English Bay:
- From Wend Blog, some pics from a dorm at a University in the Netherlands. In a word, awesome:
- Also from Wend Blog, a video on the new freediving world-record. William Trubridge went 288 feet without fins. To put that in context, I’ve never gone down further than 70 feet with a freaking oxygen tank on my back! I really don’t know how this is humanly possible:
“he traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes "sight-seeing. ~ Daniel J. Boorstin