Gear
Gear manufacturers have realised that lots of women like the outdoors and they're different shapes from men. Here's what's out there, and where you can buy it.
Trips
This Is The Sea IV is a sea kayaking DVD with a difference. Be warned if you have other plans for the week, because after you watch it you will be Googling away at work and dusting off your old kayaks to head for the water. Justine Curgenven has travelled the world looking for the most interesting, passionate kayakers to film and the result is this DVD, the fourth in the series. Click on to read the review...
What better way to rest and rejuvenate than yoga, surfing, good food and great company on the beautiful Costa Rican coast? If this sounds like your cup of tea, check out these amazing looking trips with Tierza Davis and her team at Pura Vida Adventures. Costa Rica is calling!
How would you choose to travel around Australia? By bike? Car? Campervan? Freya Hoffmeister, a German sea kayaker, has made it her mission to kayak all the way around Australia, a task that has only been achieved once, 27 years ago. At the time of writing Freya is over half way around and looking strong - and this is her story.
Jessica Watson is not your regular Gold Coast teenager. She has decided to become the youngest person to sail solo around the world, leaving Australia in September 2009 and aiming to be home by April, 2010 while she is still 16. Good luck to Jessica and may she be an inspiration to many young girls!
While I was in Colorado for GO! Girls Outdoors, Lorene Wapotich and Mary Sweeney invited me on one of their Wilderness and Urban Survival Skills courses. Four other young women and I spent the weekend learning all about survival strategies, both mental and practical, that can be applied to the wilderness and everyday life.
Anyone who has switched jobs knows that it can be stressful and tiring. Anyone who has quit a job knows that it can put you under all sorts of emotional and financial pressure, and anyone who has taken up a new career knows that it can be very hard work, both daunting and exhausting. For anyone planning a career change, use Julie Angus as your inspiration! A momentous career change took Julie from being a Molecular Biologist in Vancouver, to rowing across the Atlantic Ocean with her then fiancé, Colin Angus. Interested? Read on!
Nancy Sathre-Vogel and her family - husband John and ten year old twins Daryl and Davy - describe themselves on their website as a normal, everyday family. If this is the case then they are a normal family doing an extraordinary thing - riding their bikes from Alaska to Argentina.
Allison Shreeve has made it her goal to windsurf across Bass Strait, one of the most treacherous stretches of water in the world. She also plans to break the speed record (currently 13.5 hours) and help to raise $100 000 for Coastcare while she's at it!