I’ve been following the paddling
peregrinations of kayaker and adventurer Jon Bowermaster for a
while now. I had the good fortune of meeting him at the
Adventure Expo in New York a year ago. Cool guy. Laid back, self-assured. Smart.
His epic Oceans 8 project has taken him and his team of
photographers, filmmakers, thrill-seekers to distant, watery corners of the globe, as they explore the world’s oceans
by sea kayak. We posted about his altiplano paddle a while
back…a trip that must have furrowed brows since the altiplano is not really an ocean…not the last I checked, anyway.
Still, the photos from that trip were eye-buggingly good. Now he’s pulling strokes through Croatia and Nat Geo
Adventure has got videos and
photos (check this one out) of the trip
to prove it. A series of written and audio
dispatches takes you along on the trip…albeit
sans your own sun, water and view.
Folks interested in more about Bowermaster might also check out his DVD called
A Slow Boat to Somewhere, which I watched
and reviewed not long ago. It provides an excellent
glimpse of life in a part of the world that most of us desk jockeys will never
know.