The last two weeks have been a little disappointing – and between trying to fix the problems and run tours we haven’t had time to post regularly on the blog. Its written somewhere that bad news comes in threes – so hopefully we have good times ahead. #1 – Time Out Croatia We provided numerous [...]

This week we have been doing a little catching up with various people involved in different types of paddling in Perth. Firstly we met up with David Stevens who runs Western Paddle Sports. David offers a range of kayaking courses, for everyone from beginners up to instructors. I had to lodge my log books with [...]

While in Australia we desperately seek and jealously protect any tiny thing that can have a ‘historical’ label slapped on it, in Croatia ‘history’ just exists. A short time ago I was walking along the waterfront at the shipyard and saw the sunken boat below. Its now just another of the rusting hulks tied to [...]

This is my parents’ view of the Swan River as it runs below their house. The Swan River is to Perth as the Harbour is to Sydney – except our waterway is not as big or well-used but with less sharks and pollution. The River was named for the swans which bob around on it [...]

If pulling up a mooring in Thomson’s, learning to swim at the Basin, Geordie or Longreach, taking a walk to the Army Jetty, catching the Hydroflyte, eating cream buns, chasing quokkas, having a beer at the Sunday session at the Quokka Arms, playing beach cricket, dropping pots for ‘crays’, going fishing for herring, ‘gardies’ or [...]

For the last 34 years the Venetian authorities have stopped commercial travel on the canals and turned them over to human-powered craft – an event called the Vogalonga. It was simply amazing to paddle in it this year on May 11. It is one of those transcendental events that must be done – like running [...]

Over the weekend of 10-12 May we were able to enjoy the hospitality of Giorgio and Maritzia who organized the first seakayaking symposium – Bibione Kayak – of which we know on the Adriatic Sea. The base for the event was Capalonga Camping, about 1 hour from Venice, in northern Italy. The camp is also [...]

Tonight our friends Jane Cody and John Nash had the official Croatian launch of their book, Croatia Cruising Companion. Jane also did some writing for the new Timeout Croatia magazine, and she presented it as well to the audience of marina representatives and tourism agencies. The Cruising Companion took Jane and John several years to [...]

Warm spring day; the crack of leather on willow followed by polite applause from the crowd; men dressed-up like modern day white knights in helmets and padded armor; picnic blankets and coolers filled with wine, brie and crackers – yesterday anyone would think we were enjoying watching cricket in the English countryside. Amazingly the game [...]

Today’s picture comes from the set of Bella Biondina. The movie, based a true story of a young Split girl who falls in love with an Italian Fascist soldier at the end of the Second World War, is being shot on the streets of Split at the moment. It is being directed Danijela Marušić, who [...]