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Sea Kayaking Bruny Island

A sea kayaker based in Adventure Bay, Bruny Island, Tasmania.

Sea Kayaking Bruny Island is life enhancement through sea kayaking from my beloved home on Bruny Island. Bruny Island and Sea Kayaking is amongst the most valuable gifts I could ever share, it's also a celebration of nature and ocean love. Sea Kayaking Bruny Island offers inspiration, Sea Kayak training, expeditions and is the exclusive Australian importer and seller of the iconic sea kayak brands

, Nigel Dennis and Rockpool Kayaks. Nigel Dennis and Rockpool kayaks are hand made in north Wales and enjoy a cult like following from dedicated sea kayakers, expeditioners and instructors all over the globe. Sea Kayaking Bruny Island offers professional sea kayak training in beautiful places and attentive personal care and support. Sea Kayaking Bruny Island is the trading name of the one person company, Sea Candy Pty Ltd owned and operated by the ever passionate sea kayaker and Paddle Australia, Sea Instructor Eddie Safarik.

23/11/2025

Tim Stredwick and I headed out of Safety Cove for a lap around Tasman Island yesterday on the TSCC White Beach Weekend. : )
This is one of the truly magical places on earth.

29/05/2025

Is it just me or does anybody else get emotionally attached to kayaks you’ve had extraordinarily profound experiences in?
I paddled Peaches yesterday, an Explorer HV, 3 piece, that has accompanied me on expeditions in Vanuatu, NZ, Fiji, Corsica, Sardinia, Italy and Australia.
Still a great kayak and carries a load so beautifully.

20/05/2025

The luck of the dragon!
The Greenlander Pro, one of the world’s best sea boats. Smiles from paddling, smiles from fishing.

30/03/2025

Rethink what sea kayaking expeditioning is. Explore the joy in play…
A three day expedition…
Day one, 27 kilometres from Woorim, Bribie island to North Point, Moreton Island, play in waves on the way, set up camp on the lawn and eat amazing food including steak, cheese wine and beer.
Day two, Surf the North Point, point break all day, walk, eat amazing food, cheese wine and beer.
Day three, paddle back to Woorim, surf as you go, hang with whales and dolphins.
Jaffa and I were reminded of just how superbly designed and joyful our Romany Classic kayaks are loaded and unloaded.
I will set my glass Romany Classic up for longer expeditions, including a sail. I can’t think of a more joyful and confidence inspiring kayak to paddle in all conditions.

20/10/2024

North point, Moreton Island 3 day play expedition with Jaffa. 25klm there, surf and play for a day, 25klm home.

Boat of choice, Romany Classics. : )

19/10/2024

Skirmish Point Tidal Race Crew : )

19/10/24 Bribie Island, Queensland.

06/07/2024

Episode 3. The Wander/Wonder Expedition...

Day 2. 9/3/24
I used the rule from the previous South-West expedition, “Don’t do surf launches and landings in swell forecasts of more than 3 metres”, especially at South Cape Rivulet. Look at it on the chart, barely any cover from the dominant South-West swell compared to some of the other places that offer the possibility of landings. Just to keep it interesting, exploding, bomb-like shore dump.
The forecast was 2-3 metre SW swell and northerlies.

04/06/2024

They were magic conditions at home this morning on a much prized easterly swell. ; )

Kayak...Nigel Dennis Designs Romany Classic.

I have Nigel Dennis Designs, Romany Classic and Romany Classic LV's in stock right now, $5950.

30/05/2024

Episode 2.

How did I know I needed to be at South Cape Rivulet? (SCR)

We are our story and our story is our path.

Back in February 2022, Jaffa Johnston and I flew Nigel Dennis designs 3 piece kayaks, an Explorer (“Sabi” short for Wasabi) and a Greenlander Pro (“Lulu” short for Lutruwita) into Melaleuca Station and paddled to Cockle Creek via South West Cape.

I knew SCR would be a great place to just be. I could decide what the trip became from there, and, if it went pear shaped, I could walk back to Cockle Creek.

I invited Jaffa on that trip because he’s a good man, good mate, fun, doesn’t give up and is dependable in a crisis. As an added bonus, he was also an army medic. I once saw him pretty much singly, and with a cool head sort out multiple capsizes in shark infested water, current and lumpy seas between Bribie Island and North Moreton Island.

If you know the coast of South or Southwest Lutruwita it will be etched in your heart forever. You will quite likely return at some point, in some way…

Warning, here comes a do as I recommend but not as I always do moment…I don’t recommend paddling solo from a safety point of view, it’s way less safe. Benign situations that could have been sorted easily with a buddy can escalate on the sea, especially if you’re solo. Medical issues, simple and complex are scenarios that most paddlers don’t consider. Imagine a simple medical condition that has you out of your kayak in calm water cold enough to kill you before help arrives.

Rewind about 14 years ago…A team of three of us pioneered the 90 kilometre, 16 hour crossing between K’gari Island and Lady Elliot Island in Queensland. We had shoaling rough water, current, swell and wind up to 30 knots, chronic sea sickness “leave me here to die” sea sickness and one with severe gastro. One capsized once and one had 4 capsizes. I would be surprised if either of those two guys (one was a sea instructor) would be alive today if they were solo and couldn’t call in outside help in time. I felt strong, healthy and fit and managed to stay upright but I could have been one of the sick two or even all three of us. The rest of that trip all the way to Heron Island then to Gladstone went without a hitch.

Health is a paddler’s greatest gamble in committing settings.

16/05/2024

Episode 1.

Day One.
08/03/24

I decided to self-medicate by paddling, paddling out the grief of losing one of my best mates recently…

I made space in my life for this trip. I’d dreamed of it for a couple of years. Just simply loading the kayak with supplies for about 6 weeks and paddling out from my Bruny Island backyard and looking at stuff, poking about here and there and strengthening my connect with nature. I could decide what the expedition is and would become when I’m out there based on the freedom to act on how I felt. The expedition may have lasted one day or many…
After all, if not now, when?

As a starting point, I couldn’t get the idea of spending time at South Cape Rivulet out of my mind. It was where I needed to be to just be.

Just so you know…I’m home now and below are some of the stats from what the expedition became...

The Expedition started at Adventure Bay and finished at The Friendly Beaches via South Cape Rivulet, it became two parts with a week off between.
31 days total.
15 paddle days.
461.78 total kilometres.
30.78 kilometres per day, averaged.

Part 1…
8-21st of March.
13 days.
5 paddle days.
Average 33.21 kilometres per paddle day.
Total 166.09 kilometres.

Part 2…
28th of March -14th of April.
18 days.
10 paddle days.
Average 29.56 kilometres per paddle day.
Total 295.69 kilometres.

This expedition is dedicated to Chris Crerar, one of my dearest mates of about 25 years. Chris was tragically lost to mental health challenges recently. It was a massive blow to me. Chris was one of our country’s finest photographers, a champion of social justice, a lover of wooden yachts, nature, the sea and people, lots of people. I loved him dearly and I’m glad I told him that from time to time.

Chris was also greatly influential in me returning to my true home, Lutruwita where I have rediscovered fulfilment and happiness.

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