Weather update from Karel Vissel:
http://www.kayakweather.blogspot.com/
sat mrng nw 3 to 4bft 4bft aft sw 3bft seas 2.20 swell 1.20 frm swEarthquake News Report:
Magnitude 5.9, Friday, November 30 2007 at 4:53 am (NZDT), 50 km north-west of Te Anau.
Satellite Text Messages Received from Freya:
My first earthquake at 4.55am!
About force 6…it’s a quiet morning to cross Te Waewae Bay
I did another pool teaching session today! Jaqui and Tim Anderson with their son Pete, and Belinda and Stan Mulvany were joining me into the local Riverton Pool. Good I was able to do something useful on that windy, rainy day off!
I woke up pretty "stoned" this morning, my body told me I worked out hard yesterday!
Forecast for today wasn’t too bad, but Thursday wil be a rest day again anyway. An I won’t have made it across Te Waewae Bay today anyway… 
( I would have needed to land in Colac Bay for that yesterday, and even then I wonder what my body would have told me…it actually told to sleep until 7.30am, and then slowly make my decision…the decision after listening to the forecast was to keep on sleeping and to make the short jump to Colac Bay tonight with ebbing tide, to be in good staring position then for the quiet day on Friday to cross to Port Craig. Actually, the orignal plan was to get around Puysegur Point on Friday…but plans sometimes change…
Weather update from Karel Vissel:
http://www.kayakweather.blogspot.com/
Update by Freya 28.11.07:
Meri and Ian Leask picked my at 5.30am, and we carried the kayak over from Bruce and Gloria’s house just across the road. Thanks for storing it in the backyard and garage!
Oreti beach tues mrng w 4bft noon w 4bft aft w 4bft seas 2.50 mtr frm sw
Colac bay tues mrng w 4bft noon sw 4bft aft w 4bft seas 3.50mtr frm sw Colac bay
Weather update from Karel Vissel:
http://www.kayakweather.blogspot.com/
Oreti beach tues mrng w 4bft noon w 4bft aft w 4bft seas 2.50 mtr frm sw
Oreti beach wed mrng w 3bft non w 4bft aft w 4bft seas 2.40 to 2.20mtr frm sw
Colac bay tues mrng w 4bft noon sw 4bft aft w 4bft seas 3.50mtr frm sw
Colac bay wed mrng w 3bft noon w 4bft aft w 4bft seas 3.30 to 3mtr frm sw
What to tell…I basically was sitting on the computer all Saturday updating the rest of the last paddling days, and put the new sent by Karitek skegbox in my kayak, plus some minor repairs on the boat.
Sunday morning I got a lift to Invercargill again, and food-shopped for the next 3-4 weeks…I will stuff the last corner with eadible things, who knows how long I’m stuck in Fjordland…no food drops planned. Maybe I have to fish at some point 
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Stanley Mulvany was so nice to give me a lift back, after we had a nice look around in the local museum. Thanks, Stanley!
Weather update from Karel Vissel:
http://www.kayakweather.blogspot.com/
Friday: mrng w 4bft noon nw 4 to 5bft aft w 3bft 2.60mtr frm sw
Saturday: mrng nw 4bft noon nw 5bft aft nw 4 to5bft seas 3mtr frm sw
Update by Freya 24.11.07:
Not much going on today…I made myself at home in my little hut, slept long, had a lovely shower, cared about my sandy gear, dried my tent, repaired some little issues, made a lot of phone calls top everybody.
So far I updated the 13.-16th, some more updates will follow the next days when I have more time for internet!
I am obviously landbound the next 3-4 days before heading out to Fjordland, not too unwelcome I must admit…although I’d rather be paddling when the weather would be ok!
Thanks guys for all nice comments on my progress! It’s good to know lot’s of friends are following my progress. Let’s pray for some more decent weather!
