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Aussie Odyssey

People sometimes ask me what I find so exciting about being out in choppy seas in a small boat, far from land. I usually make something up like “I enjoy the solitude, I enjoy the wildlife, I love the motion, I can communicate directly with nature through my senses rather than my cerebellum.” Regardless the sport, I can usually find reasons why a person might be challenged to participate even though the activity might fall outside my personal comfort zone. But every now and then someone does something that is difficult for even me to understand.

Case in point. Chris Bray and Clark Carter recently finished pulling their custom-built, all-terrain kayaks across the largely unexplored Victoria Island, between Nunavut and the Northwest Territories. They completed the journey in 70 days, crossing approximately 1,000km of incredibly varied terrain – everything from mud, rock and grass to frozen coastlines, high plateaus, lake-strewn marshlands and even sheets of ice and snow. Check out their website at www.1000hourday.com for sexy photos of the journey. In the mean, check out this picture of Chris and Clark pulling their all-terrain kayaks across a field of jagged, ice-shattered rock. I would go just about anywhere in a boat but I’m afraid that after seeing this leg of their adventure you’d have to count me out. Congrats to Chris and Clark!