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The new kayak and I are ready to go! The boat is customized to my needs and sealed, the gear is cleaned and repacked and my skin is healed (well enough) to get going again on the long haul down to Perth.
I’m launching tomorrow from the same spot where I landed before my break. Greg is driving me up to Kooljaman’s/ Cape Leveque where I’ll get wet again!
My old boat loaded on Terry Bolland’s van, ready to drive back to Perth.
It’s pool time for the new boat! Luckily the Broome Caravan Park has a beautiful one, and the management lets me jump into it with my new kayak!
It’s outfitting time! Thanks to Terry Bolland and to my partner Greg Bethune to do an increadible job today! They were busy all day on the new boat, plus getting the old one in shape again to stay as a spare kayak for me.
Terry will take the old one back down to Perth, and will display it in his shop Canoing Down Under with an entrance fee of 100$ per view ;-)). You may visit his shop and donate to his expenses! :-))
I was still working all next morning on my website, when we thought we should make some phone calls to find out where Terry Bolland was on his drive up from Perth to Broome with my new epic 18 x sport expedition kayak on his roof rack!
It turned out he’ll arrive already today’s afternoon in Broome! We decided to sign out of the lovely Lombadina place, and to find some accomodation in Broome to work with Terry to outfit my new boat.
Busy updating my website
When I landed Tuesday night in very last light at Kooljamans, it was still not directly at the beach of the Kooljaman’s wilderness camp, where I planned to stay for some days with shower and electrical hookup for charging my batteries.
I was waiting Wednesday morning in my beach camp for Greg to pick me up. He was to drive up to Cape Leveque from Broome where he flew to after spending 3 weeks in the USA while I was paddling through the Kimberleys.
Yes, I made it yesterday to Cape Leveque/ Kooljaman through BIG spring tides in a 85 km leg. I’ll write about details later.
I’m in a dry climated room right now to heal my sore skin, it really doesn’t look and felt good the last days paddling.
I’ve got internet access here, and will upload my trip report of the last 23 days through the Kimberlays day by day. Luckily it’s mostly pre-written already…
Jacqui Williams of Epic Australia reports:
Freya’s boat left this morning - very securely tied down on Terry Bolland’s car. Terry is an Epic reseller in Perth through his shop Canoeing Down Under in Bassendean.
Thanks Terry and those who went to great efforts to help us find a way to get it there.
Thanks
Jacqui
I couldn’t leave the beach before the water was at least there where it has been when I arrived – at the edge of the steep sandy beach. The sandy and muddy tidal flat needed to be flooded.
The sound of the rushing in tide tried to keep me awake last night, until again I reached for my earplugs…
The first light always has a magic effect on my body. Tiredness was gone, and I prepared myself to eventually make some progress towards Caesar Island! I took the chance to jump out of the boat to open my hatches for more food on a shallow reef edge, but not without having slipped into my neoprene socks as well. You never know what is floating around in the shallow water…
Sam Marshall, manager of the Kuri Bay Pearl Farm, sending me off at 5am
I woke from the mutual alarm making noise all over the pearl farm at 4am. The workers start their day quite early! But I was ready to go anyway.
I filled my water bags for the last 5 days to Cape Leveque, had a few nibblings in the canteen for breakfast and packed my boat in the darkness.
