By Vladimir Brezina
This week’s Photo Challenge is Inside.
Inside our home away from home, pitched on the tiny Magic Key in Estero Bay, FL, we catch a few hours’ sleep before another night of paddling during the 2014 WaterTribe Everglades Challenge…
More photos from the Everglades Challenge are here.
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Tagged Camping, Everglades Challenge, Inside, Kayak Camping, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2014, Tent, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
Ailsa’s travel-themed photo challenge this week is Tempting.
Paddling down the Intracoastal Waterway near Sarasota, FL, during the first of our Everglades Shakedown paddles back in April 2013, we succumbed to the temptation of ice cream.
Perhaps this explained why we moved so slowly during that trip! So, during the Everglades Challenge itself, we removed all such temptation by paddling “outside”, through the Gulf.
And in a single day we traveled the distance that had previously taken us four days.
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Tagged Florida Kayaking, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2014, Tempting, Travel, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Johna Till Johnson and Vladimir Brezina
Photos by Vladimir Brezina
We completed the 2014 WaterTribe Everglades Challenge in 7 days and about 14½ hours. We set no records—in fact, we were among the last to finish. But in a race in which many worthy competitors don’t finish, simply completing the course within the 8-day time limit felt like a “win”. (Plus, we got snazzy sharktooth necklaces to commemorate the event!)
As expected, it was quite an adventure: Bright sunshine, dark nights, wind, rain, laughter, tears, friendly and scary creatures, sleep deprivation, hypothermia, hallucinations… and water, 300 miles of it. We made friends and discovered many things that worked, and quite a few that didn’t.
Our writeup is forthcoming, but meanwhile, here are some of the photographic highlights (click on any photo to start slideshow):
Update March 17, 2014: Our writeup begins here.
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Tagged Everglades, Everglades Challenge, Florida Kayaking, Kayak Expeditions, Kayak Race, Sea Kayaking, WaterTribe
... kayaked the waters around New York for more than 15 years in his red Feathercraft folding kayak. He was originally from (the former) Czechoslovakia and lived in the U.K. and California before settling down in New York. He was a neuroscientist at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. He died in 2016.
... is a kayaker and technology researcher at Nemertes Research. She's an erstwhile engineer, particle physicist, and science fiction writer. She was born in California and has lived in Italy, Norway, Hawaii, and a few other places. She currently resides in New York City.
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