Tales written by Gavin McClurg and photos by Jody MacDonald on board the 5 year world expedition The Best Odyssey, a kitesurfing, surfing, paragliding odyssey.
Colliding with a reef, surfing big waves, kiteboarding in Micronesia and swimming with Manta Rays packs a hell of a punch on this wild epic
Join Moehau Goold, Mauricio Abreu, and Josh Mulcoy on a kitesurfing expedition in the middle of the Pacific, a lone island in Micronesia
Somewhere in the past few weeks this train got off the tracks at reality and hasn’t returned. I keep waiting for the hammer to fall, to wake from the dream, for something to happen that is just hum drum. The expedition peaked right after Christmas at The Edge of the Earth, went completely over the edge with a bunch of the world’s best in Legends at the Abyss and though I don’t remember much as I was pretty sick, continued the exponential climb in a Matter of Perspective. The quality of the winds and waves in the Marshall Islands were simply insane and we seriously considered just halting the whole thing there as I thought there would never be chance to find better.
Things don’t always go according to plan, even when you’re kiting and surfing the best conditions we’ve found on the expedition
Pete Cabrinha, Kristin Boese, Mauricio Abreu and Moehau Goold jump aboard the Best Odyssey for an expedition voyage into the unknown
We score the best waves and most consistent winds of the expedition in the Marshall Islands
This past fall, Joaquin asked if I would be interested in joining him on the Best Odyssey.
We take to the skies for the first paragliding that has ever been done in Tonga. Insane images.
We go as remote as you can in the northern Cook Islands- a place only a handful of boats have ever sailed
We can’t leave Huahine. And dammit we don’t want to! We picked up our skeleton crew, Richard and Paschi in Tahaa on day one with every plan of staying in the area, but by that evening (after a nice kite session of course), we were back in Huahine. Huahine has a tractor beam on Discovery that I’m happy to keep getting sucked back into. Richard and Paschi would be joining us for a week compliments of Best Kiteboarding as they won the sales competition this year (nice incentive Best!). Having just two people on board is kind of like a vacation for us and we’d make the most of it this week.