From the monthly archives: September 2011
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Imagearchive Zurich Technical University

On September 29, 2011 By

The Zurich Technical University has an enormous on-line image archive with materials from across the world, with as far as I found a lot of images from the 1900-1960 period. I stumbled upon pictures from 1909 of Eskimos in kayak. I know there are a lot of you who have some interest in [...]

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One Man Epic

On September 28, 2011 By

This week I stumbled upon the ‘One Man Epic‘ site. This site keeps track of Tom Smitheringale’s journey on the Nile in his kayak. After the paddling stage he will travel on camel with the Bedouin to discover the Western Dessert. Tom started at 19 September [...]

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Bookreview – The Fat Paddler

On September 27, 2011 By

If you read a lot about kayaking on the web, I am sure you have seen the name Fat Paddler around. You might even follow his website. Sean Smith (his real name) has written a book about a period in his live where he had to suffer great set backs. Kayaking plays [...]

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Shooting pictures on the water

On September 26, 2011 By

I take my DSLR with me on the water in a drybag. However I follow the waterproof camera market because a DSLR on the water takes a lot of time unless you have it in a waterproof housing.

When GPS arrived for compact camera’s (for geotagging) I really was hoping for someone to [...]

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News Article

On September 2, 2011 By

Today I received a link to a Dutch translation of a great article regarding paddling route on the Ulster coast in North-Ireland. I had to share this with you as I wrote an article on the great effort Northern-Ireland made to give paddlers a really good site with information about routes in Northern-Ireland.

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Two movies

On September 1, 2011 By

It’s been a while since I posted movies, but here are two really nice movies:

Destination Spain?
Paddling the Northern coast of Spain, this movie shows how beautiful it gets:

Hobi vs. Marlin
Fishing fromout a kayak makes great movies. Especially when the men from Fishing Australia do so from out [...]

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