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Sierra Safari – World Class XC Clinic in Owens Valley
One of the most elite Cross Country teams ever assembled is offering a 3 day XC paragliding clinic in Owens Valley this September, 2012. Continue reading
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Tagged brad sander, cross country, eric reed, flytec, gavin mcclurg, hangliding, honza rejmanik, josh cohn, kaenon, Kari Castle, kavu, Keane, nick greece, niviuk, niviuk paragliders, paragliding, sharkies, sharkies energy
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Cabrinha Kiteboarding announces The Cabrinha Quest in Collaboration with Offshore Odysseys
A mutual desire to seek out the world’s most remote and dynamic kitesurfing and surfing locations, while building awareness and inspiring solutions to the environmental crisis has culminated into a five year agreement between Cabrinha and Offshore Odysseys. The expedition is called The Cabrinha Quest. Continue reading
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Tagged adventure, cabrinha, expedition, gavin mcclurg, jody macdonald photography, kiteboarding, ocean, offshore odysseys, pete cabrinha, Quest, SUP, Surf, travel
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The Final Log of The Best Odyssey Expedition
I asked her to do this because I knew I wouldn’t have the words to describe, to explain, to illustrate what the expedition has meant to us, or to those who have joined along the way. Of course photos are only a slice of the picture, a fabulous collage pieced together somewhat magically and very haphazardly as we slowly worked our way around the world. There’s been a plentiful supply of blood, pain, laughter, disappointments, discoveries, and of course moments that are too special to ever try to represent with words. Continue reading
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Tagged adventure, Best Kiteboarding, cape town, cape verdes, cliffs of hoy, discovery, eddie bauer, gavin mcclurg, hyperflex wetsuits, ireland, jody macdonald photography, kaenon, kiteboarding, kitesurfing, Kristin Boese, liberia, niviuk, orkney islands, outer hebrides, paragliding, Sail, sailing, scotland, south africa, SUP, Surf, surfing, travel, uk
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Slow living in an Ancient World
A curse and blessing of our times is the speed at which we can move about the planet. I often think it must be terribly hard for our guests to negotiate the distances and logistics required to get to the boat, then get their mind in a place where they can actually really BE on the boat rather than thinking about work, children, pets, bills and all the distractions and nuances of daily life. Then suddenly just as they are getting into the groove, just as those layers of “home” are wearing off and the need to fire up the blackberry or Iphone are beginning to fade they find themselves at the airport and it all comes rushing back in, like a spinning tempest. Continue reading
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Tagged Best Kiteboarding, cape wrath, death, eddie bauer, first ascent, gavin mcclurg, jody Macdonald, kiteboarding, kitesurfing, life, niviuk paragliders, orkney islands, outer hebrides, paragliding, patagonia, Sail, sailing, scotland, Surf, surfing, Surftech, time, wreck, yvonne chouinard
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National Geographic Extreme Photo of the Week
National Geographic Adventure Magazine features a paragliding photo taken by Jody MacDonald of our Dune Discovery last year off the coast of Mozambique. Epic find and a very special way to remember such an amazing few days of flying. Continue reading
How to launch and land a kite from a boat
If you closely adhere to these steps, kiting sans beach becomes a safe, easy and fun alternative, and opens the world of offshore wind kiting which is often the best. We’ve never had a single incident (well, one slightly torn kite, but that doesn’t count!). Continue reading
Final Sessions and a few lessons
I’ve been trying to write our final log of the Cape Verdes for over a month now. It’s not that I can’t remember what happened, and it’s not that I don’t have a story to tell. I experienced some of the most magical days of my life in those dry islands off the west coast of Africa and I’d like to describe how that feels. Continue reading
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Tagged adventure, africa, antao, Best Kiteboarding, best odyssey, cape verde, eddie bauer, first ascent, gavin mcclurg, kiteboarding, kitesurfing, ocean, Sail, sailing, sal, SUP, Surf, surfing, vicente, waves, west africa
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Return from the brink in Cabo Verde
The Cape Verdes lie in the path of this hazy swath which resembles the locust swarms we’d seen in Madagascar- thick and inescapable. But as soon as we left port on that first trip before the fall of the New Year another place and country began to take shape. … On the way to the guests’ hotel I made one final effort to find a portable generator I could run on deck (previous attempts had come up empty), struggling to communicate my need to the taxi driver using a mix of Spanish, English and very poor Portuguese, which was all he spoke.
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Tagged adventure, Best Kiteboarding, best odyssey, cape verde, eddie bauer, gavin mcclurg, huge waves, kiteboarding, Kristin Boese, Sail, SUP, Surf, swell, travel
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When the Wind Blows
For once it wasn’t me who almost died. But I’m already getting ahead of myself.
We had a week in Bazaruto without guests to play on the dunes before heading back across the Mozambique channel to Madagascar. In this time we flew as much as possible; spent way too much time in Vilanculos trying to repair one of our refrigerators (unsuccessfully); and got about $12,000 dollars worth of camera and paragliding equipment stolen from right under our noses on the beach. In less than 12 hours we had it all back in perfect nick after spreading the word that we’d pay a handsome reward no questions asked for the return of the items. We also had our secondary anchor stolen by some fishermen from right off the bottom one night, but this seemed a small price to pay for all that Bazaruto had provided. Continue reading
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Tagged adventure, best kites, best odyssey, exploration, flameballs, gavin mcclurg, kiteboarding, lagoon, madagascar, mozambique, ocean, paragliding, SUP, Surf, travel, tulear
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Cargados the Hard Way
In many ways the last trip started over 10 years ago. I was sitting in a pub on the SW corner of Vancouver Island near the Juan De Fuca Straits with a guy who’d just completed a circumnavigation. It was the spring of 1999 and other than commercial fishing in the Bearing Sea I’d never been offshore and had no idea how it all worked. This guy’s stories of adventure kept me rapt for hours and I furiously scribbled notes about all the places he reckoned were “must sees”. One in particular seemed more enticing and yet elusive than any other. Chagos. I’d never heard of it and remember pulling out a map later that night just to make sure it was real. Continue reading
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Tagged adventure, Best Kiteboarding, best odyssey, cargados, discovery, gavin mcclurg, kiteboarding, maldives, offshore passage, paragliding, reef, reunion, Sail, sailing, speed flying, Surf, towing
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