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James Walker

I've been paddleing for about 10 years more or less, live in Darwin, which is a city of about one hundred thousand people on the top of Australia, with the next biggest city 4ooo km to the south. its tropical with a wet season and a dry season and little in between. The area is very natural thanks to no industry as such and the paddleing is great... water always warm, resonably sheltered but with good surf when the wet season cyclonic lows come in: warm waves up to 6' high which are great to get the kayak surfing on, and if you come out and the box jelly fish don't get you then you can last forever because there's no such thing as hypothermia up here!

My partner and I paddle a 21' kevlar 'Baracuda' double kayak which we got in New Zealand last year (check out gr8.co@ihug.co.nz) the kayak is an unusual designe that works better than anything I've ever paddled before: deep V hull and very fast and stable, doesn't fall off the wave like most other boats, lots of room..

To fund such purchases I run the clinical side of a residential drug rehabilitative program based on the therapeutic community model... and after a hard day at the rehab i cool off by heading out for a paddle...

I'll post a web site dealing with NT paddles soon so yall can see photos, but the area is potentially fantastic for kayaking, only probs being crocodiles and box jelly fish, both of which are potentially leathal. the crocs are the real problem though, still, we dont have bears and at least crocs arn't smart, although they will stalk near water and can hold theyre breath for an hour or so...

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