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Jake Stachovak is paddling a kayak around the entire eastern United States. The 5,000 mile journey began on Dec. 6 at Portage in south-central Wisconsin, a small Wisconsin River town where John Muir lived as a child.

Stachovak, 34, plans to go down the Mississippi River to New Orleans, go east across the Gulf of Mexico, follow Florida’s shoreline peninsula, then go up the east coat to New York City where he will … Details

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Sea kayaker Freya Hoffmeister had only two things on her mind when she finally disembarked after a 13,000km circumnavigation of Australia: food and dry clothes.

“I’m hungry and I need to get out of my swimsuit,” she told AAP.

Hoffmeister on Tuesday returned to Queenscliff where her journey began in January.

After 332 days in a swimsuit, the German completed the 13,000km journey 28 days faster than the only other successful circumnavigation, by New Zealander Paul Caffyn in 1982 …  Details 

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Kayak fishing, without a doubt the fastest growing segment in sportfishing today, is jumping to an even higher level in 2010 with a national tournament tour.

The inaugural Inshore Fishing Association (IFA) Kayak Fishing Tour, presented by the Hobie Cat Co., will stop at Titusville on May 2 as part of an 18 multi-species tournament trail.

The best part is  …  Details

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Kaua’i’s Na Pali Coast and five other kayak trips made National Geographic Adventure’s list of The 50 Best American Adventures.

One kayaking trip made the top 10, taking second place. There’s no explanation of the methodology, and of course we’d have put a lot more kayak trips onto the list. I mean, would you really put four-wheeling in Oregon above paddling Lake Superior’s Apostle Islands? Not if you’re a sea kayaker …  Details

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