Ocean rowers: what do they REALLY do out there?

This post is really just a 'heads up' at this stage ...

Now that Olly Hicks, of Flying Carrot fame, has got taken ashore in New Zealand, I must stop procrastinating, and get round to writing up a waffle on my take of the exploits of ocean rowers I have kept tabs on in the past year or two, ie

* Roz Savage crossing the Pacific in stages.
* James Castrission & Justin Jones, Crossing the Ditch (ie the Tasman Sea, Australia to New Zealand)
* The late Andrew McAuley and his fatal attempt to cross the ditch further South,
* Olly's attempt to circumnavigate the planet even further South, via the Southern Ocean

Outside.online reports from the frontier

Outside.online's Top 10 Adventure Twitters is another great place to find adventurers, probably even a better place than here, presumably because the operator of that site has more time to devote than I do (which would not be hard).

I know, I know, Katie Brown did not make their top 10, but she IS in the site somewhere, and climbing a tree is good too :-).

Steph Davis is their #2 and some of her movies on her site are great. She does some cool climbs, with definitely over "three feet of air" in most of her jumps.

Helen Baxter

Feature: The geek squad by Olivia Kember | New Zealand ListenerIt seems that Helen Baxter and husband were born on the frontier. Interesting article, eg "They view with satisfaction the internet’s rout of traditional business models."

Cruising Scarier than Somali pirates - the real danger in our oceans

Plastic: Scarier than Somali pirates - the real danger in our oceans. What is floating around the eastern corner of a 10-million-square-mile oval known as the North Pacific subtropical gyre? ... and the other similar gyres in each of the other of the world's oceans.