My adventures
My first real adventure, despite having bushwalked for many years, was a sea kayak trip in 2011 from Port Welshpool, island hopping across Bass Strait to finish at Little Musselroe Bay on Tasmania’s NE Coast.
Bass Strait by Kayak

Map of Bass Strait showing the route from Port Welshpool in Victoria to Little Musselroe Bay in Tasmania while crossing Bass Strait by sea kayak.

The following year I travelled to East Greenland to join a paid expedition paddling sea kayaks 400+kms through some of the most incredible landscapes on earth.
2012 Greenland Expedition
In 2013 I returned to East Greenland to undertake a solo expedition by sea kayak. A challenging but very satisfying trip.
My blog from this trip A Solo Sea Kayak Expedition in East Greenland's Ammassalik region
and a video from the trip here Ammassalik solo
A couple of years hiatus then I was invited to join an expedition to a destination known as Lake Fjord (Tugtilik) in East Greenland. This was an ambitious trip by sea kayak and ultimately on the 2nd August 2016 our small group of paddlers reached our destination. We were one of only 4 kayak groups to reach that location in the previous 84 years.

Map of East Greenland showing expedition routes in years 2012, 2013, and 2016.

Just prior to leaving for the Lake Fjord expedition I received an email inviting me to join a sea kayak expedition to the Antarctic Peninsula. This involved leaving Ushuaia at the southern tip of South America on a 20 metre yacht and sailing across the notorious Drake Passage to the Antarctic Peninsula then subsequently paddling 300kms down the Antarctic Peninsula coastline. Stunning, remote, cold and essentially, a very dangerous place to kayak but an adventure definitely worth doing!

Map of the Antarctic Peninsula and surrounding islands, with our sea kayak expedition route from Enterprise island to Winter Island

A couple of long motorcycle trips followed. In 2022 I rode 10,300kms through Central and Eastern Australia followed by a longer trip the following year of 14,000kms over 35 days through Central and Western Australia.

Map of Australia showing a travel route connecting cities and landmarks including Toowoomba, Boulia, Tennant Creek, Ayers Rock Campground, Alice Springs, Marree, Port Augusta, Barrier Ranges, Melbourne, and Sydney.
Map of Australia showing a route from Lake Lachlan TAS 7140 in Tasmania through various cities and regions across the country, ending near the Timor Sea.

Also in mid 2023 I rode a push bike 493kms on the Tasmania Trail (along with 9,517 metres of vertical ascent and descent). Tough but fun.

Map of Tasmania showing a red route from Hobart in the south to Launceston in the north, passing through the interior, with parts of the island's topography and some city names labeled.

In 2024 I went on my most satisfying and spectacular trip. This was a solo expedition to travel to northern Mongolia in winter to walk for 7 days on frozen Lake Khovsgol. Temperatures dropped to as low as -25°C with the ice on the lake an average of 1.1 metres thick. Just fabulous!

Map of central Siberia and Mongolia showing Lake Baikal, Lake Khovsgol, Irkutsk, Ulaanbaatar, and surrounding regions.

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