In October 2007 and May/June 2008 I circumnavigated the Mediterranean island of Sardinia, a journey of almost 900km.
In October 2007 I did two thirds of the circumnavigation of Sardinia. Together with the Canadian paddler Wendy Killoran, we started in Cagliari and we paddled about 600 km together until the beach of Porto Ferro on the NW coast of Sardinia. Our friendship didn’t survive the ordeal, however, we went our separate ways and I decided to suspend the journey shortly after.
I returned to Sardinia in late May 2008 to finish the circumnavigation of Sardinia, which I completed on June 9th. I did this part of the journey alone.
The project had a separate blog at www.kayakislandquest.com, which has since been discontinued. All relevant material from that blog has been moved here.
There are photos from the first part of the journey and from the second part on Flickr.
Posts from the journey in chronological order:
2007
- Paddling in Sardinia – Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007
- Sardinia at last – Thursday, October 4th, 2007
- Spiaggia San Giovanni – Saturday, October 6th, 2007
- Pizza to Pizza Paddling – Saturday, October 6th, 2007
- Find Wendy – Monday, October 8th, 2007
- Golfo di Orosei – Wednesday, October 10th, 2007
- Pathetic Pizza Day – Thursday, October 11th, 2007
- Around the eastern corner – Friday, October 12th, 2007
- Tavolara – Sunday, October 14th, 2007
- Weird waves – Monday, October 15th, 2007
- Isola Caprera and Isola della Maddalena – Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
- Around the northern tip – Wednesday, October 17th, 2007
- Around Capo Testa – Thursday, October 18th, 2007
- Landbound – Friday, October 19th, 2007
- Different times, different technologies – Friday, October 19th, 2007
- Beach Blogging – Friday, October 19th, 2007
- Windbound again – Saturday, October 20th, 2007
- Back-paddling – Thursday, October 25th, 2007
- Suffering and Hardship – Thursday, October 25th, 2007
- Hardship continues – Friday, October 26th, 2007
- Team split – Sunday, October 28th, 2007
- My Sardinian journey ends here – Monday, October 29th, 2007
- Leaving Sardinia – Tuesday, November 6th, 2007
2008
- Returning to Sardinia – Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
- Sometimes you have to go back to go forth – Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
- Deluge – Thursday, May 29th, 2008
- Finally – Saturday, May 31st, 2008
- Bosa – Saturday, May 31st, 2008
- Is Arenas – Sunday, June 1st, 2008
- San Giovanni di Sinis – Monday, June 2nd, 2008
- Marina di Arbus – Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
- Marina di Arbus, day two – Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
- Buggerru – Thursday, June 5th, 2008
- Sant’Antioco – Friday, June 6th, 2008
- Sant’Antioco day two – Saturday, June 7th, 2008
- Chia – Sunday, June 8th, 2008
- Cagliari – Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
