Ebook: Crossing the ditch: two mates, a kayak, and the conquest of the Tasman
Author: Castrission James, Jones Justin
- Tags: Adventure and adventurers, Adventure and adventurers--Australia, Canoes and canoeing, Canoes and canoeing--Australia, Ocean travel, Sea kayaking, Sea kayaking--Australia, Travel, Biography, Biographies, Castrission James -- 1982-, Jones Justin, Sea kayaking -- Australia, Adventure and adventurers -- Australia -- Biography, Canoes and canoeing -- Australia, Tasman Sea -- Description and travel, Australia, Pacific Ocean -- Tasman Sea
- Year: 2010
- Publisher: HarperCollins (Australia)
- City: Australia;Enfield;Pacific Ocean;Tasman Sea;Pymble;N.S.W
- Language: English
- epub
'This is the gripping and inspirational account of two ordinary blokes ... double-handedly proving that the Age of Adventure is not over!' PETER FITZSIMONS
With more than two thousand kilometres of treacherous seas and dangerously unpredictable weather and currents, it was little wonder no-one had ever successfully crossed the Tasman by kayak. Australian adventurer Andrew McAuley had come close just months earlier - tragically, though, not near enough to save his life. But two young Sydneysiders, James Castrission and Justin Jones, reached the sand at New Plymouth - and a place in history - on 13 January 2008, 62 days after they'd set off from Forster on the mid-north coast of New South Wales. In the process, they had to face dwindling food supplies, a string of technical problems, 14 days trapped in a whirlpool, and two terrifying close encounters with sharks.
When they arrived in New Zealand, their friendship stronger than ever, they were sunburnt, bearded,...