I'm sorry, but there is no video (online for now) owing to many, many weak excuses, including the one where I don't know how to work iMovie or Doug's Macbook. Uploading the video is just like trying to get Doug to get ready before about 11am. I just can't work out how.
In the meantime, we've been pretty busy. I've been putting together the rest of the gear that I need for my sea boat, and Doug competed in a 6 hour mountain bike style enduro race on the Kaituna. The race started at 11am. Competitors had to sprint the 3km section, which don't forget features class 3/4 rapids and a 7m waterfall, before running their boats up to the bottom car park, finishing their lap with a jog back up to the start where they tagged their team mates so they could begin the next lap. The winning team got 24 or so laps, each competitor managing 8 or 9. A very respectable effort. A special mention however goes to Jamie Sutton (brother of Sam), who competed in the solo (or in my mind, psychopath) category. He, over 6 hours, completed 21 laps of the Kaituna, just 3 less than the winning team of three. Incredible.
Some photos can be found on Facebook, here.
News about the next month or so for Sam now. I'm planning on taking my sea boat on a paddle from Auckland up to the Bay of Islands, where I'm going to see how my shoulder feels and potentially carry on further. It's one of these, and I'm super psyched to get it packed full of camping gear and finally get amongst it in a kayak after two months spent out of a boat. This does mean that the blog updates are going to be even less frequent. Doug does of course have the password to the blog and he may well provide some updates too, but to keep up with him, you're probably best to look at Facebook.
Keeping track of me will be a bit easier. Each evening (morning in the UK) I'm going to fire off an 'OK' message on my spot beacon, which gets displayed here along with my location. The keener amongst you can also check out the charts en route for free at the Land Information New Zealand website here. Given enough motivation and boredom, you could overlay the two and have a really, really good time.
So it's Au Revoir for now,
Catch you all soon,
Sam and Doug.
hahaha. loser!
ReplyDeleteThat's awesome that you are doing some serious sea kayaking. I'm so jealous. Sea kayaking would easily be my next favourite discipline. What have you done with your tuna whilst you are away? What colour did you get the sea kayak in? Do you think you will ship it home? (the correct answer is yes).
ReplyDeleteI'm following you on the beacon thing. How far was your journey between 2 and 3? Was that a follow a bearing or were you just running along the coast? Take photos!