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Sea to Submit X-Training Plan
Friday 7th Sunset Peak Day HikeMembers: Carol K, LiaLocation: Sunset PeakTime: Will take the 0715 ferry to Mui Wo and then share a Taxi to the beginning of the trail.Gears: 4-5L water per person,...
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Gear List for our Aug day trip (70k Lantau)
Gear List for Aug one-day Lantau trip(A) just before trip:Leave a route plan (Siu Ming)Contact info (Siu Ming)Arrange Safe-Calls (Siu Ming)Buy bread, bottled water (4L)Check weather FC + Tide(B) Both...
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Lantau Circumnavigation in one day with Dennis
Sunset Peak HikeWell, it was supposed to be a cross training day on Lantau, starting with a hike on Sunset Peak, then paddle around the island, then hike Lantau Peak after the sea trip. But Dennis...
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DB to SSB to DB Trip Plan
Cancelled the hike with Carol today due to bad weather and also food poisoning on my part.Hope I will be able to paddle out to SSB tomorrow. It sucks when you are committed to something when you're...
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Quick Update: 75k sea-trip Saturday, Sec 3 today, Lantau Peak tomorrow
Darn close to successfully killing myself last Saturday; I managed to fall asleep while crossing the ELC. Between pulling an all-nighter on Friday night, food poisoning, v+/d+, electrolyte imbalance,...
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Tai Tan to TMT (CLG) to Tai Tan
Wed (19) - Lantau Peak Hike: 1006 (Pak Kung Au) - 1301 (Big Buddha) Thur(20) - KA -- rolling practice all day with Candy (Europa/ Master)Fri (21) - Gym with CarolSaturday (22) trip plan"Trip" as in...
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Tai Tan to TMT (CLG) back to Tai Tan (Aug 22-23)
Aug 22Tai Tan to TMTDecided to launch early to avoid the brazen sun. The VERY HOT weather warning has been blasting continuously in the last few days. 0451 Fred's (got my feet wet but had to fight my...
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TMT to Tai Tan with a violent squall hot on my heel (Aug 31)
Just a quick one before I catch the bus back into town.TMTWSC 3:31* * * stopped for 8 minutes to rearrange the floaties in/ on the kayakPak Sa Tau Tsui 4:11Dam 4:35Lo Fu Wat 4:50* * * stopped for 5...
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70km of darkness, sunrise, and sunset (with Sam)
2302 愉景灣 2328 迪士尼2345 青州仔0004 岩口石0019 汲水門0030 拐石0108 長索咀 * * * took a long break, drifted half way back to Kwai Shek by 0127, made it back to 長索咀 by 01350324 東湧 green buoy ... held onto the buoy...
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21km route from Tai Tan (and fecked by the HKO)
Got fecked by the HKO AGAIN. What "moderate" wind blows me completely off course and into the pit of Nam Fung Wan!?Very strong wind, at least a BF6 IMO. Had difficulties maintaining course in the...
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DB to Kwai Shek (Kap Shui Mun) back to DB
Kiska has been stolen. :(DB 5:55pmDisney Pier 6:23 Tsing Chau Jai 6:31Arm Hao Shek 6:50 Kap Shui Mun 7:01Kwai Shek 7:11Kap Shui Mun 7:20Arm Hao Shek 7:39Tsing Chau Jai 7:58Disney Pier 8:11...
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DB - Kwai Shek - DB
Combed the beach for Kiska, still no sign, won't give up though.Got into an argument with someone in the boat club this morning when I called to see if anyone has my paddle. I'm a little ashamed to...
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Paradise regained.
the entire HKSAR celebrated my reunion with my beloved Kiska with the explosive vocabularies of a few magnificent firework displays -- one on Tuen Mun side, and one on Disney side. The entire sea was...
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DB to Shek O back to DB
Did another 70k+ route again yesterday. (Oct 1st)Got up at 0330 to prepare to launch, I had an ominous sense of foreboding about it, like I'm forgetting to do something, and in sea kayaking, being...
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Crying in the park
I'm a bit embarrassed about this, but I think I'm ready to put it behind me.Last Sunday, I walked through MacLehouse stage 1 to 5 (up to Jat's Incline) from 8:30am to 2:00am.In the beginning, I was...
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Trailwalker -- afterthoughts
Trailwalker Hong Kong 2009 is over, this is not strictly related to kayaking, but since I've been posting my trailwalker training logs here, I might as well write in this blog.My team set a target of...
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Trailwalker 2009 - my account
The night before the walk, I was a quite apprehensive. I knew I should go to bed as early as possible, I can endure a lot of physical stress, but sleep deprivation has always been my greatest weakness....
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Confronting Yuki
I finally confronted Yuki, I'm not very good at this kind of things, I wasn't sure what would be the best approach, but I had decided I would be blunt, with no sugar coating. I expected her to find...
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Back to Normal
I'm finally coming out of seclusion. Grahame e-mailed me urgently for some of my measurements for the cockpit fitting, I think he got a little pissed off that I stopped communicating. Paul called on...
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Head trainer on DB
Finally ran into the head trainer in the DB gym today, apparently he thinks I'm not trying hard enough on the set. He said the weights I'm using are too light for me, and when I told him I was going...
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NZ South Island preparation and musing
For Freya, launching into a journey around a continent is "not an effort," it's just a walk in the park for her.Yet here I am, scared out of my wits about paddling around an absolutely miniscule...
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trip prep musing
For someone my age, I've certainly done a fair bit of traveling, and I tend to stay in countries I visit for at least 6 months, so you'd think I must be getting good at it by now.Kids are counting down...
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The bird escaped its cage :)
It has been a long time since I blogged. It has been a long time since I felt like I'm being myself. I can't even make myself pick up the phone when my friends called, it's like, if I'm not paddling,...
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Island Hopping route
Attempted the Is. hopping route today, attempted and failed, more or less.I've been reading Vic McAuley's book "Solo," as I was already familiar with the outcome of the expedition, every moment of...
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Coming back to life
Circumnavigating Lantau with two fire service officers today. Both of them are fit as fiddles so I'm a little apprehensive, especially since this is my first long trip (70km) after my surgery/...
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