Seekajaktour: Umrundung Irlands im Seekajak 2015

THINKING ABOUT ...
For me and maybe for others as well Seakayaking is
two journeys in one:
The “outer” trip is about making miles, coping with
rough seas and reaching destinations. The inner
journey however is happening in our minds which are
triggered by the outer trip and by the direct exposure
to nature and the sea.
So reading of the outer journey can sometimes be
boring whereas the inner journey is a very strong
personal even intimate experience that is not easy to
describe. If someone writes it down this often
becomes very pathetic - we are paddlers, not poets.
However I would like to try leaving a mental note of
my "thinking about" merely for myself to realize after
this journey whether I had a change in attitude to
things and the meanings to me.
Why on earth … round Ireland?
For me going round Ireland was more or less a coincidence. I just wanted to go for a longer
paddle after finishing a longtime project at the company I was working with. I was interested
in experiencing a nomadic live and living with the tides, without any longtime targets, goals
or schedules. My longest trip before that was 5 days. And when Mirco came up with the idea
of circumnavigating Ireland a year ago – it seemed attractive to me and manageable.
So when during the trip a fisherman at Seven Heads asked us “why”, while we were making
a break in a tiny cove – it was raining and the mist was coming in – I instinctively answered:
“Just for pleasure …”
© Christian Dingenotto 2015
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