Archive for the ‘ Miscellaneous ’ Category
Memory Lane
16 Apr 1:21 am by Mark Kalch Category: Miscellaneous, The Expedition, Thoughts, Videos
A trip down memory lane. Remember this? 3 epic days with Nice and the boys on the Rio Apurimac. Please enjoy.
Walk on…
10 Mar 2:57 pm by Mark Kalch Category: Miscellaneous, The Expedition, Thoughts
It is more than 2 weeks since Nathe and I finished our epic adventure. As I write this Nathe is venturing back up the Amazon aboard a passenger boat. At every opportunity he is locating an internet cafe to check and reply to personal and expedition related emails.
Back in Australia I have been doing much the same, however my internet access is a little more reliable. The media interest we have managed to generate through simple hard work and determination seems to be paying off. Daily we receive emails from magazines and newspapers eager to run something. We have a potential feature article in mainstream magazine Thats Life with a readership of over a million people! Awesome!
Wild Magazine, one of Australia’s leading outdoor magazines has also expressed keen interest in us writing an article for their next edition. After reading our post titled San Francisco (no flowers in our hair) it seems they were impressed enough to think we had an article in us worthy of publication. This is exciting news for Nathe and I.
As well there have been numerous articles in newspapers, TV and websites over the past week. We are stoked to get all this coverage, but it has certainly not come easily. To draw attention to our efforts has taken a lot of work. All the same we will keep pushing for coverage. Not, of course to get our mugs on TV or in the papers but to allow future endeavours to hopefully be looked upon by potential sponsors etc in high regard based upon this success.
Please keep checking back for more posts as we begin editing our footage and photos, as well as for more news regarding the team’s future plans.
Homeward bound for one
01 Mar 1:22 am by Mark Kalch Category: Miscellaneous, The Expedition, Thoughts
As I write this post, I am seated, quite comfortably I might add, in the VIP lounge of LAN Chile at Santiago International Airport. I would like to tell you that they heard of Nathe’s and my exploits and have bumped me up to first class for the trip home. But if I did tell you that I would be lying. You pay $30 US (we were here 6 months ago and paid just $20!) and you get to hang in this sweet lounge. Seeing as I have or had a 22 hour wait here it is money well spent. I can use Wi-fi, there is awesome showers, lounges, tv, other computers, heaps of food, drink and a well stocked bar. I even think I may make myself something of the alcoholic variety, but I will wait until midday.
4th team in history from source to sea
25 Feb 3:33 am by Nathan Welch Category: Environment, Miscellaneous, The Expedition, Thoughts
On the 21st February 2008 at pretty much the stroke of midnight we realised our goal of navigating the entire length of the longest & biggest river on the planet, under our own power – Rio Amazonas. The final 2km was in pouring rain, howling wind & knee deep stinking mud as the river gods threw one last angry fireball at us. We dragged our Ark raft Skop Gat to a light beacon on a muddy outcropping called Ponte Taipu, marking the point where the mighty River finally meets the Atlantic Ocean. Ponte Taipu: S 00 39.708´ W 48 02.633´
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Apologies
25 Sep 12:03 am by Mark Kalch Category: Miscellaneous, The Expedition
Howzit all! Just a quick post while we have the means to do so. I want to apologise to our main man, David McDonald for not giving him thanks sooner. David is a freelance web designer who put together our most excellent expedition website. David had to put up with weeks, possibly months of questions and fixes and changes to the site design from Nathan and myself before we gave him some peace and quiet. His ideas and know-how made our site what it is. An unbelievably interactive web experience for both the user and us. We can go into the back-end of the site and add things, take them away, add photos and of course exactly as I am doing now, add posts, from wherever we are on the expedition. Cheers David.
Also an apology to friends and sponsors of the expedition who were waiting with excitement the arrival of the team´s best looking member (no, not Scotty, we will see him in a couple of days!), Miss Holly Tett. Hol´s important work commitments have left her unable to join the expedition as yet. Obviously Hol is disappointed, however she will join us as soon as she can on the river.
Awe.
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