By Vladimir Brezina
This week’s Photo Challenge is Containers.
The key to efficient expedition kayaking is the successful management of containers. It’s taken us a while to learn that lesson…
How will all this stuff fit into those two little kayaks??
It’s a matter of the right containers
(2011 Hudson River paddle from Albany to NYC)
to be able to find things when we need them
(2012 Long Island circumnavigation)
and quickly set up camp before the evening mosquitoes swarm
(2012 Long Island circumnavigation)
or make dinner on a dark beach before the tide comes flooding in…
Vladimir Brezina (RIP) 
Johna Till Johnson
Wind Against Current 
Great take on the challenge!
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Thanks!!
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Some containers are more important than others, and surely yours rank right up there!
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They are the most important thing in the world when you really need them!
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Excellent photo-story! I think REI should team with you … that’s quite an impressive collection of gear. ;)
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We always take too much—but I guess we always think, better safe than sorry :-)
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Considering the kayaks containers, too?
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Yes, it’s all containers within containers within a container :-)
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The upside… no baggage fees! :)
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That’s an art, too—how to bundle everything together in the least expensive way when you get to the airport :-)
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I can only imagine the amount of triple checking and organization this takes! Great for the theme.
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Well, we always think we’ve triple-checked and organized everything when we start out ;-)
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Containers personified ! So organized are you both.
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Not quite organized enough yet, which sometimes makes it interesting when interesting is the last thing we want ;-)
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Wow! Impressive planning and containing ;)
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We are good at the planning—the containing, not quite yet :-)
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You do fit a lot I to your kayaks.
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We would probably do better with less :-)
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wow .. never knew you could put that much gear in a kayak… thats what i say efficient planning …. great shots !!!
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That much gear and a lot more besides, actually :-)
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great organizational and management skills!
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Improving skills, at any rate ;-)
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Wow! That’s quite the variety and quantity of containers. I see you’ve both acquired some skills in logistics along your many journeys. Good job! :-)
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Necessary skills, and doubly so when we fly to a remote paddling destination with all that stuff—and my boat! :-)
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