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SAN JUAN ISLANDS PADDLE

SAD TO SEE SHAWNA AND LEON GO HOME TODAY!

It’s been a busy few days, with a premiere on Orcas island and one in Seattle, both with good turn outs. Plus a great paddle and a nice walk in the San Juan islands. Thanks a lot to “Body Boat Blade” for driving us down to Seattle, and buying pizza and beer for everyone who attended, aswell as organising the San Juan islands premiere. Thanks also to Seattle Raft & Kayak company for providing the venue. Last night we stayed with Nigel and Kristen Foster and had a look around Kristen’s wonderful ceramics studio. Thanks to them for hosting us.
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KRISTEN IN HER STUDIO
We were sad to leave Shawna and Leon from BBB today, but are excited to head south to Portland for a premiere there tonight at the Mission Theatre. I’m sitting in the theatre now, 15 minutes before people arrive. It’s a great venue with a huge screen, lots of seats and a bar!

STRONG FEELINGS IN ANACORTES THE DAY AFTER THE US ELECTION

LEON ON SUCIA ( SORRY IF I SPELT THAT WRONG!)

It’s amazing how quickly you can be in a different place! On Saturday morning we had breakfast in England and by the afternoon we were being picked up by Mike Callahan from the Eco-Marine kayak shop in Vancouver. By the evening we were presenting the DVD to about 100 people, trying not to think about the fact that it was about 3am for us! It was a fun evening and good to meet lots of enthusiastic people and see a few people again. Thanks for everyone who showed up, to Michael, Eco-marine and West Coast paddler for organising and presenting the event and to Lendal Paddles and Ocean Kayak for sponsoring Barry and my travel expenses to make it all possible.

Yesterday Michael drove us down to Deception Pass where we met Shawna and Leon, Dubside Tom, Anne & Steve for an afternoon paddle. Now we’re back on Orcas for a couple of days, about to go for a walk up Turtleback mountain!

Thanks to Dan from West Coast Paddler – I’m having trouble getting photos from my camera so I stole one of his from his website without permission! I hope that’s OK and that you forgive me, Dan! You can read what people thought about the premiere and DVD here

It snowed today in Mynydd Llandegai – the first time this year!

There are a few more reviews of ‘This is the Sea 4’ popping up. Derrick at Kayak Quixotica has written a long and very nice review.

Overall, the DVD seems to be well received – there is some bickering and bantering about which disc is best and different people have their particular favorite chapters. I’ve also seen some discussion about which of the 4 “This is the Sea” DVDs is the best one – the Norwegians that I have spoken to think that this one is the best so far but no 2 people think exactly the same…. Hopefully with 2 and a half hours of content, everyone can find something they like!

If you still aren’t sure and live close enough then tomorrow – Wednesday – is the premiere of “This is the sea 4” in Llanberis at Surf Lines shop, and on Thursday there is a premiere at Brookbank Canoes huge store in Stockport.

You can see an interesting variation on the cover of ‘This is the sea 4’ here