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GUEST SPEAKERS Justine Curgenven Justine is an award winning adventure filmmaker and expedition sea kayaker, who runs Cackle TV and created the highly acclaimed “This Is The Sea” series of DVDs. Her latest DVD, "This Is Canoeing", was released in March 2010. Her films have won a dozen prestigious prizes including best ‘mountain sport’ film at Banff Mountain Film Festival. Some of Justine’s previous expeditions include: the first all-female circumnavigation of Tasmania – 900-miles in 42 days, a solo trip around Iceland’s West Fjords, a 400 mile journey up the Pacific coast of Kamchatka with Hadas Feldman and a novice Russian sea kayaker, a 500 mile circumnavigation of the Queen Charlotte Islands with Shawna Franklin & Leon Somme, a kayak crossing of the treacherous Bass Strait, between mainland Australia and Tasmania, and the first kayak circumnavigation of Wales (by sea, river and canal) with Fiona Whitehead. Justine was the featured speaker at the 2008 Great Lakes Sea Kayak Symposium, where she did some filming for "This Is the Sea 4", and we are excited to welcome her to Port Austin!
In 2005, Barry paddled around Great Britain with Phil Clegg and Harry Whelan, completing the 2,200 mile journey in a remarkable 80 days. Barry’s paddled across the Irish sea between Wales, Ireland and the Isle of Man 9 times, a distance of up to 60 miles including a 60 mile crossing from the Llyn Peninsula to Wicklow on January 1st 2009 – one of the shortest ( and |
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