What else can come after wild water kayaking?! Sea kayaking!
The first sea kayaking started almost by accident. In 2002, I was head over heels in love with white water kayaking and I was sure there was nothing better in the world. (At least in Central Europe). I have already stopped canoeing, ice hockey and roller hockey because of it. I threw myself into getting to know foreign rivers with great enthusiasm and wanted to import polyethylene kayaks at all costs.
This is how RTM Ysak, one of the best French sea kayaks, came into my shop.
We looked at each other for a long time, it's a very charming creature, then I decided, after all, you can't sell a sea kayak if you don't make it yourself.
We MUST go Sea Kayaking!
At that time, I had already had paddle in my hand for 26 years, but I had never paddled at the sea. I have been doing white water kayaking for 3 years, it went quite well, but the sea can be different. Fortunately, I had a friend called CSASZI (Gyula Császár), who by that time had covered half of the Adriatic. So I asked him to lead the first tour.
The first location could of course be none other than the Kornatti National Park, also mystified by Bernard Shaw. God supposedly created this from sighs, tears, and breaths.
I organized the team for the tour, there were about 20 of us and we were accompanied by the luck of the ignorant pioneers. It was beautiful sunshine the whole time, with no wind, and despite the fact that you can only officially sleep in the Telascica bay on Kornati, there were no problems anywhere.
A real desert by the sea, people who like the desert like this tour. You'll see piles of bone-white salt sunken in true deep blue all week. I'm not saying you can never get bored of it, but the view is captivating. Blue & white.
I listened to Csaszi's tour guide, while thinking about what I would do differently.
As befits a true Southerner, Csaszi had a lot of buffets, in the hottest days we preferred beer, hot Turkish coffee or cold Croatian beers...
I realized that the search for accommodation is a special charm, value and excitement of sea touring. This is not a task for whitewater kayak tours or an upper Tisza tour, it is a simple matter. We slept and woke up in wonderful places.
Öcsi and I climbed to the top of the southwest cliff 50 meters above the sea in the Telascica bay. The view from there is incredible, the rock is a bit steep, but the views of the sunrise are worth it.
We slept at the foot of the Lucica church in the uninhabited landscape, on the top of Zut island, because there is hardly any horizontal area on its shores, but there are 10-meter horizontal cliffs waiting at the top. We slept in the yacht harbor of Piskera, only here were shops and night yacht life, and of course we saw incredible hidden and small and romantic parts of the archipelago.
These are real tours, real nomadic tours, where you learn how little is needed for happiness.
To live and sleep under the stars, as Márai wrote..
The Tisza tour teaches gentleness, white water kayaking teaches self-knowledge and control, and sea hiking teaches you how big you are in the world...and how good it feels to discover things yourself.
From the following year, I planned how I would kayak the islands of the Adriatic, and later the islands of the Ionian Sea, and northern Italy.
I will write a little about the best routes and post some pictures to give an idea to those who start this majestic thing.
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