We’ve been adapting to our environment while traveling the coast on our inn to inn trip this week. Great way to start the fall kayak season! . . #mainekayak #kayakmaine #seakayaking #boothbay #boothbayharbor #mainecoast #visitmaine https://www.instagram.com/p/Cizo3X4LWi1/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Looking for a chance to get out and explore Orcas Cove?

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Hate packing but love the destination ❤️ . . . . #seavibes #kayakingtour #kayak #kayaking #kayaking🚣 #kayakingadventures #kayaktrip #kayaking_is_mylife #kayakingtime #kayakingtrip #kayakcamping #kayakinglife #kayakingday #seakayaking #seakayakadventures #seakayaker #croatia #adriaticsea��� #adriaticsea🌊 #adriatic #adriaticsea #summervibes #camping⛺️ #campingvibes #sunset (at Adriatic Sea) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp-we5vISxV/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Freshwaterpaddling at Västra Ingsjön. #seakayaking #paddlingmixtape #rockpoolkayaks #taran16 #kokatatusa #bracapaddles #olympustg5 #sweden #westcoast (at Västra Ingsjöns badplats) https://www.instagram.com/p/CjgMQT9sABb/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#seakayaking and #snorkeling I could do this all day. (at Manini Beach) https://www.instagram.com/p/ChQxANPpM9R/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Having a go in a whitewater kayak @wavesportkayaks #ethosnine #wavesport #wavesportkayaks . . #kayaking #kayak #wavesports🌊🌊🌊 #kayakingadventures #kayakingfun #kayakingtrip #kayaking🚣 #seakayaking #kayakingisfun #kayakingtime #kayakinggirls #kayakinguk #mylaskates #maldon #essex https://www.instagram.com/p/ChF8OUkqABF/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Forever cruising on the open ocean. Www.thedarkturtle.com #darkturtle #kayak #kayaking #seakayaking (at Carribean Sea) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cg9az6ru1yg/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

用宗〜竹の子岩〜安倍川河口 朝焼け漕ぎ10km #静岡シーカヤック #seakayaking #seakayak #kayak #もちむね #用宗海岸 #シーカヤック https://www.instagram.com/p/Cg7_JrXPvTB/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

About to #seakayak on the #caribbean ! @chabilmar #unbelizeable #seakayaking https://www.instagram.com/p/CgvHDTZppuG/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Maine sea kayak guide training online classes start March 14th and on water in May. Do you want to be a Maine guide or just sharpen your skills? #mainekayak #maineguide #seakayaking #employment #outdoorjobs https://www.instagram.com/p/ClLyHs4LhrR/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Sevenler kavuştu... .. . @gulsaho @kanoizmir @outdoorizmir . . #kano #canoe #seakayak #seakayaking #canoeing (at Güzelçamlı, Kuşadası, Turkey) https://www.instagram.com/p/CdkZawhgKrF/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Skin on Frame baidarka Aleutian sea kayak. Hand built by yours truly.

🔥 GIVEAWAY 🔥 We are giving away everything in the photo (remember the prize descriptions, it will help you later💡): 1x DryTide 30L waterproof backpack, 1x DryTide 30L whale dry bag 1x DryTide 15L bear dry bag 1x DryTide 5L seagull dry bag AND 1x DryTide waterproof phone wallet. HOW TO ENTER 1️⃣ Follow @drytide and like this post 2️⃣ Count how many liters combined can all the 6 bags shown in the SECOND photo carry, write the number in the comment and tag 2 friends. 3️⃣ Repost the giveaway post or giveaway story to your story and tag @drytide so we know you did it. Giveaway ends November 25rd, available worldwide. PS. This giveaway is not sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with Instagram . . . . . #drytidegear #backpack #waterproofbackpack #waterproof #waterproofbag #madeofocean #thesearch #exploringtheglobe #seakayakadventures #seakayaking #seakayak #adrenalinejunkie #oceangear #waterproofgear #waterproofbags #travelbackpack #commuterbike #rainproof #rainresistant #backpackeurope #adriaticsea #surfing #surfgear #surflife #surferlife #surflove (at Worldwide) https://www.instagram.com/p/ClI4h-7NTjw/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

My favorite campsite on the west side of Risö. A beautiful evening, still summer. And when i got dark, you could see the bioluminescence/seafire. It doesn't get better. And all this only 45 minutes paddling from home. #seakayaking #paddlingmixtape #hillebergsouloblacklabel #sonya7s #sonyrx100ii #zeapontech #sunset (at Risö Väst) https://www.instagram.com/p/CiDo6QMMCM4/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#Repost @sidocean ⏬ 📎 read —— This summers incredible kayak encounter with the Northern Resident Killer Whales A54s, A50s and A23s. We positioned our kayaks over 200m from shore as we heard over the radio that the orcas where about to swim tight to the shoreline, heading into the Robson Bight. We call it the waiting game as we sat there for over 30 min, rafting up our boats, not even seeing the glimpse of an orca blow. But patience was rewarded as they slowly began to swim past us, under our kayaks, forage and spyhop all around us so we didn't know where to look first! Having the chance to hear them communicate underwater over my hydrophone at the same time was nothing short but magical. Turn up the volume to hear these beauties sing. 💙🐳 . . . . #orca #killerwhale #NRKW #blackfish #nofishnoblackfish #northernresidentkillerwhales #VancouverIsland #protectwhatyoulove #MyCanada #BritishColumbia #pnwonderland #fujifilmxt3 #hellobc #explorebc #discoverVI #raw_canada #BCisBeautiful #ilovecanada #thanksbutnotanks #seakayaking #ohcanada #staywild #savethewhales #TurningTheTide #whalewatching #vanislelife #vitaminsea #shareourcoast #wildlifephotography (at British Columbia, Canada) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cjnzah3KfG4/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Day 97: Sunday April 7, 2024 - "Silver Appreciation Post"

It was a romantic end of trail for Silver and I's run through the universe these past few days. I wasn't feeling the love and loyalty trying to buy a new Toyota hybrid, and one final interaction out on the back lot, provided the omen I needed to pick up and move on from it. As if Silver was saying to get on up outta here. I tipped my hat to Silver on the way out the door, and handed over its title to the foreman in the service shop there. He said he planned to fix it up and keep it for himself and get it back on the road where it belongs. I was so grateful for that. After such a wonderful story together where I got more out of it than I could have ever dreamed, now it winds up in a place to get a new life. Its a bell cow now - with every opportunity to get at least to 300,000 miles. I proudly shared with Toyota, how my Prius has been a legend. From every corner of the country, and every new road we could find.

Its easy to be nostalgic about it - it gave me far more than I could have ever dreamed when my Dad found back in the fall of 2013. After an overnight test drive, and some arm twisting from my Dad, I was indeed getting my wide frame behind the wheel of a Prius. It was - slowly - life changing. Delayed by a deer strike, but on course for fate, I tied a seakayak to the rack in a snow storm and set out on my Grand walkabout. We went west. Me and my Silver steed. And indeed the sun did shine soft on another face - we found our home. We crossed this country in search of bread and love. And found all of it. It was the car that will always be most tied to my identity than any other vehicle. We did big things together - I saw the universe through its mirrors and filters. It took good care of me - always reliable. The car I brought William home from the hospital in is the same special car I rolled out on my walk about in. I'll never forget that. Daddy's car will always first and foremost have been Silver. My special car. I drove it for as long as I could, and when it gave up its ghost in February it didn't owe us a thing. Paid off since 2018 we got 6 more years of good go out of our main car for almost no cost. My Dad agrees, its definitely one of the best used car picks he's ever hit on. Yea, couldnt hardly have been any better. We bought it at 40k miles from a dealer in Lansing, MI. I sold it for cash to a service foreperson in Tucson. And in between we saw some the neatest and very best roads. From Yosemite to the Everglades. From Big Bend of Texas, to Big Sur in California. Places it shouldn't have gone, admitted issues with its headlights, and horn, and yes that might be some white gorilla tape holding that panel together - got that in Tahoe on Labor Day one year. All scars are memorable on this car. This scratch here is from my kayak in the everglades when I still very new in learning how to strap it down, in the first leg of the ramble. And these big scratches here on the front bumper are from the time the car completely shutdown and we couldn't get it up out of the alley and into our backyard, no matter. how. hard. we. tried. It just wouldnt fit - those scars, remind me of that - when the engine and everything was all rebuilt as part of a recall to save the day for us. It always felt like I was spoiled with this car. It was a legend in the way it was steady for me. I had to be convinced by my Dad at first, but I'll always give him all the credit - and especially after we added that sport rack, it was ready to be my adventure-mate. I sang its praises. It had so much room I could live out of it, as I went state to state, literally carrying a dinner table to serve as my mobile remote office. I'd pull it out and setup shop in each new place I'd land in. That Prius, thought of as a little car, had more room than most little SUVs. I was proud of it - and the story we were telling together, seeing the country, giving others the permission to do it, in a way that I never had. I'd like to think that somehow I made a difference, out there in my white Prius.

Some of the stickers, still on it today, were there from the beginning in October 2013. The 142 Into the Wild tag, the old english D. The Michigan Love. Later we'd pick up a Bernie Sticker in Vermont, and of course a Biden sticker - which shouldnt surprise people to see on a Prius in Tucson, though it always seemed to surprise them when they saw me behind the wheel - not what they expected! And I love that. -that maybe we reshaped some ideas around going smaller and more sustainably in the effort to simplify and enjoy the expeirence. It was the perfect car. For all of that. And for me and for that time. It helped light the spark. It was part of the manifestation, that led me here. To my fate, and my family. It has a spark of that. Its easy to be romantic about the connection to such an inanimate thing - a machine - a computer. I gave it a loving goodbye and loving place to land. I'd done my part, and ended that story.

Id spend the day writing reviews in its honor, and researching Subarus before working to settle on a new family car, the Ascent. By week's end we'd have our names on one in transit and figuring out financing. A new story starting in a more exciting and energized way that feels very right. Just had to close that last circle first. I'll be a very lucky man, if I ever have a better car than Silver - I just can't imagine it will ever be possible to catch that magic twice. The car I left in, found love in, brought my son home in. It gave me everything.

Song: Josh Ritter - Roll On

Quote: “I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.” ― Johannes Kepler

Not ALL of these miles were in Silver, of course - some pre-dated the Prius, and some tracks were in rentals. BUT Oh, So, many of these tracks were in the Prius at some point.