Thread: For the more adventerous, sea kayak tasmania/ Bass Strait

If only I was younger.... Bob


Bass Strait by Kayak – the planning and preparation | Go Camping Australia

That is doing it the easy way. There are islands to stop at on the way if you take the eastern route.

If you are feeling particularly adventurous, trythe non-stop western crossing.

It has been done.

Andrew McAuley, 36, from the Blue Mountains, is believed to have completed the first non-stop, unassisted crossing. It took the New South Wales man 36 hours to paddle from Wilson's Promontory in Victoria to Boat Harbour on Tasmania's north-west coast.

Mr McAuley says the weather conditions were excellent, but sleep deprivation was a challenge. “There was one little incident – in the middle of the night there it's very hard dealing with sleep deprivation and so on, and I actually nodded off in the kayak, fell asleep and capsized, found myself upside down, woke up pretty quickly and just had to do an Eskimo roll to get back up but yes, that was probably the trickiest thing that happened out there,” Mr McAuley said.
http://canoe.org.au/2003/12/19/bass-...cord-crossing/