New site, Florida Kayaker and wildlife photographer. Here’s a link to the blog:
http://paddletales.blogspot.com/
Many nice shots of birds of the gulf coast. Here’s some of mine if ya wanna look.
http://flickr.com/photos/tonyolsen/collections/72157600004887151/
Take care all.. Safe paddling
Tony

Carlos of Diario de kayak sent me a couple of links on kayaking in the Mediterranean. The link to the pictures is here. Also included is a link to a video taken from a kayak, with the camera under the water link: Bajo de Agua
Thanks Carlos
Tony

Here’s a guy that can really roll a SOF kayak. Interesting viewpoint, the camera is mounted on the bow.
click here for Youtube video
Another bunch of Greenland style rolls here.
Enjoy!
Tony

Very nice kayaking diary from Spain! Non Spanish speakers don’t fret, there is a translate flag for you to click on to get it in English. The stories loose a bit in the English translation, but the general thoughts can be understood.
On this site are a tons of very nice pictures and trip [...]

A little late on this post, but here it is. 
We had a good time, me; 1 redfish and 1 trout.  Jim; 2 trout.  This was good enough to keep us in first place for quite a while but some harder core guys came in later and bumped us down to 4th.  Had a good day, [...]

Just loaded all my gear and will be fishing tomorrow. A big boat and kayak tournament. Good buddy Jim talked me into it, so will be paddling and fishing the canals at 5 am tomorrow. After first light, we will go out into West Galveston bay off of Tiki Island. Should [...]

Had a great time as usual with Kurt and Anton, got to paddle in rain and wind.. Always fun! No lightning in it or we would have called it quits. On Saturday, I tried a roll, and it was one of those were EVERTHING went wrong. Oh well, that’s what [...]

I went kayaking with Kurt Maurer yesterday, always a fun and learning experience.
I’ve been trying to get my roll down and to build a bit more confidence. While playing in the shallows, working on the hip snap, Kurt said “that hip snap was pretty weak” so I did another and promptly went all the [...]

After merciless prodding and cajoling from Kurt Maurer, I finally got more padding and a better seat in the Sea Ranger. Ya see, Kurt has very tender knees and other body parts so I had to put a little padding in to ease the pain. (I figured he would get calloused up a [...]

Sorry about being so late on this trip report, but I have been paddling and working other projects.
On August 12th, seven of us set out from Sea Wolf park for a 12 to 13 mile circumnavigation of Pelican Island. Of the 7 kayaks, 3 were strip built wood kayaks and of the 7 paddles [...]