Vancouver Island ~ We Are Family - Kokatahi River, New Zealand

Playak News Flash - April 24, 2012
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News Watch Headlines Vancouver Island WRSI - Vancouver island is a kayakers dream. The island has it all, steep creeks, monsterous drops, clean water falls and boulder gardens are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to describing the rivers in this area. Along with the characters of these rivers, the insane concentration of rivers ... We Are Family - Kokatahi River, New Zealand Jordan Searle - Its hard to keep thinking of things to write about this river. I usually get to run it 3 or more times a season, over the past 5 years... you get the picture. This day however we thought we had been skunked. A massive crew came together on a sunny Hokitika morning, not a cloud in the sky. Two EPIC weeks surfing one of my favorites… BUSEATER! worldkayak blogs - So it all started with a phone call…. "Nick, dude, get up here now, Bussy is in and it is 80 degrees outside!" This call came from my best friend Joel Kowalski up in Beachburg. He lives on the Ottawa River and got me started in kayaking 10 years ago. Now you have to understand Joel usually calls me and tells me I should be up on the Ottawa for some spring time surfing. Though this call usually comes in May not March, and it is usually never followed with 80 degree weather. Live back home! Sweet - It has been great to go back home! I got to see so many friends that I haven't seen in so much time… rest a bit after so many waterfalls and not having a bed for so many months…After spent sometime with my family in Girona I moved to sort. We had a great week of good paddling on the upper Noguera & Palomeras creek, with good weather and the water raising up. The cold has come back and stopped everything…. London Town Mike Dawson - I've arrived and been in London for just over a week. It seems as though I have just left London in October & I am already back here. I left NZ on Singapore Airlines direct into Heathrow for 3 weeks of epic-ness here on the Olympic Course. First up the British are having their own Olympic Se... Misson Impossible- Patagonia edition Sweet - Last year I spent the majority of my 3 months stay in Chile in Patagonia, and a considerable amount of that south of the Futaleufu. This river is for most regarded as "south", and we do not see a lot of the paddlers of the north making the trip. And if so, the Futaleufu is normally just the training ground for groups taking on the famous Rio Baker, .... Build Your Open Ocean Endurance SUP Connect - Anytime you venture into the ocean, your open ocean endurance is not something to take for granted. It is a required physical and mental element that all water sport enthusiasts must have... But many that are first shall be last; and the last shall be first. SeaKayakPhoto.com -  When HMS Defender past the wind got up and we soon sped past the Little Cumbrae lighthouse but the Drumchapel and Clydebank Club had already disappeared over the horizon. The wind strengthened off Gull Point and the water began to get a little livelier...

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