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Steve Dawson
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Forced to work to support my kayaking and canoeing addiction. Obsessed with ultra-distance paddling events. Living in the coldest part of a hot country.
2024 Yukon 1000 Part 2 - in the weeks before the race we watched fires burning along the river
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Yukon River Quest Cut Short
June 2024 When news started breaking that the Yukon River Quest had been cut short at Carmacks due to wildfires our worst fears were being realised. We were days away from flying out to Whitehorse …
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April 11, 2025 at 1:29 PM
This is the first in a series of articles I'm releasing about the 2024 Yukon 1000 canoe/kayak race

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Prologue – Non sumet nullus pro responso
July 2023 Outside close friends, we haven’t spoken much about our withdrawal from the 2023 Yukon 1000. At the end of a strong day one, we thought we were pretty well placed based on our mental…
dustandash.travel.blog
April 11, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Digging through our stack of camping gear and came across the Biolite stove. As it burns twigs or leaf litter, even kangaroo poo, it creates electricity which drives a blower which increases the burn efficiency.

Surplus electricity could charge a device back then. Now not allowed in Nat Parks
February 8, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Escaping the global insanity by picking wild blackberries.

#peace
February 2, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Paddling in Tasmania.

Huon River.

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#seakayaking
#cotdbp
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January 25, 2025 at 8:25 AM
January 7, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Watching the Rolex Sydney to Hobart yacht fleet go past Cape Raoul on the Tasman Penninsula. I don't think the wind is doing any favours to the tired crews.
December 29, 2024 at 8:05 AM
Maybe the final Saturday paddle for 2024, and we get near perfect conditions on the Huon River in Tasmania's South.

#canoe
#kayak
#kayaking
#seakayaking
#cotdbp
#churchofthedoublebladedpaddle
#tasmania
December 28, 2024 at 9:26 PM
December 18, 2024 at 9:18 PM
Punching under the wave and about to emerge into the foam

#paddlechurch
#kayak
#kayaking
#seakayaking
#cotdbp
#churchofthedoublebladedpaddle
December 16, 2024 at 6:23 AM
Sitting at work wishing I was here - Broughton Island off the Coast of NSW, Australia.

#paddlechurch
#kayak
#kayaking
#seakayaking
#cotdbp
#churchofthedoublebladedpaddle
December 16, 2024 at 6:20 AM
Sunday paddle in Tasmania. This is where we train for the 2025 Yukon 1000.

#paddlechurch
#kayak
#kayaking
#seakayaking
#cotdbp
#churchofthedoublebladedpaddle
December 15, 2024 at 8:37 PM
Sometimes paddling is about solitude and nature. Other times, it's about friends.

#paddlechurch
#canoe
#kayak
#kayaking
#seakayaking
#cotdbp
#churchofthedoublebladedpaddle
December 13, 2024 at 9:22 PM
December 13, 2024 at 11:45 AM
My first attempt at bringing the Church of the Double Bladed Paddle to BlueSky... work in progress.

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#cotdbp
#churchofthedoublebladedpaddle
December 11, 2024 at 8:39 AM
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December 9, 2024 at 9:10 PM