Thats epic! Ill support the cause after that effort and Ill have a beer in your honour-congratulations
Congratulations on finishing your epic journey Ian
Write up in page 3 of today's West
au.news.yahoo.com/marathon-surfer-soldier-on-for-veterans-25573817.html
Hows this for an idea. Anyone who has commented on here but has not donated put your money where your mouth is and get the tally up to $20k. Yes I have.
Select to expand quoteHighzaKite said..
Hows this for an idea. Anyone who has commented on here but has not donated put your money where your mouth is and get the tally up to $20k. Yes I have.
spoke too soon...
Post-log:
Sensational effort by Ian and the team to have pulled this off. The boys and Trooperdog arrived back in Geraldton yesterday afternoon and we spent the afternoon editing photos, fielding calls and of course, sharing a few coldies!
A fun celebration dinner here last night and a few bottles of red. Post-brekkie this morning, the crew have headed back to Perth.
If you want to catch up with Ian and congratulate him, he'll be at the after-party for the WAKSA downwinder tomorrow (Sunday) afternoon in Scarborough, Perth. Ring the WAKSA folks for details or look on their web page. (He was quick to point out when we invited him to attend "Love to go to the after-party, but I am NOT doing the downwinder!") ;-)
GWN ran this story today:
www.gwn7.com.au/news/
A lot of folks in Exmouth put out a lot of personal effort on Friday to pull together and get some video clips and very nice stills of Ian arriving at Jansz yesterday so the TV stations would have footage of the finish and the newspapers would have content for a story that they'd promised to do. Ben for the Visitor Centre, Emma and Scott from Ningaloo Kite&Board, Tom from Exmouth, Jimmy, Peter Burns, amongst others.
In the end, after a lot of work scrambling to meet their deadlines, none of the media outlets used any of the new content that was provided. However, The West Australian ran a great Page 3 article on Friday and had told us that they'd do a feature article in today's paper but nothing there turned up today that we could find.
GWN7 interviewed Ian on the road on the way back from Exmouth yesterday and used some of the Geraldton footage (link above). The Sunday Times had committed to do an article for tomorrow's paper but after they saw the Friday article in the West, we got an email saying:
"Unfortunately The West gave Ian's story such a good show on page 3 today that it has killed our story for The Sunday Times. The nature of news is that we don't tend to publish each other's stories. Hope you understand."
Disappointing, to say the least. Especially for Soldier-On.
Never mind. We have loads of great (yet unseen) photos and video that we'll used to compile something ourselves and it won't go in mainstream media.
Kiteworld has approached us to do an article on the mission so we have plenty of unseen footage and photos for that!
Ian has written a detailed blow by blow, daily blog of the trip that will soon see the light of day when we decide the appropriate outlet for it -- the most important factor being which opportunity will give the greatest benefit to Ian's wounded warrior comrades that he took on this mission for.
Open to any proposals or suggestions for how to best do this.
Feel free to post them here or PM me and I'll discuss any ideas with Ian and the crew.
Best wishes,
Rob
Yeah agree... been great watching the event unfold, especially watching via the log tracker. Would make an excellent doco...
Great effort Ian. I was just scrolling through the forum and was looking at the last photo. My missus asks, Is that Hugh Jackman? I said no, he doesn't look anything like Hugh Jackman. Reply was , he does without my glasses on.
She puts her glass's on. Yes your right. He's too heavy for Hugh Jackman.
You may have to do it again, and this time without the beer!
I am calling he will do it again, and this time with the cliff section included
that was just a warm up session
maybe a doco next time around and perhaps a small posse Of fellow Kiters ?
Agreed, all you need is boat escort and then death on the cliffs should be history.
Nice work Ian congrats.Select to expand quoteIoz said..
I am calling he will do it again, and this time with the cliff section included
that was just a warm up session
maybe a deco next time around and perhaps a small posse Of fellow Kiters ?
Perhaps a small posse of fellow O/50's kiters.
Who else would be silly enough to want to do that though. 
Select to expand quotekb53 said..
Great effort Ian. I was just scrolling through the forum and was looking at the last photo. My missus asks, Is that Hugh Jackman? I said no, he doesn't look anything like Hugh Jackman. Reply was , he does without my glasses on.
She puts her glass's on. Yes your right. He's too heavy for Hugh Jackman.
You may have to do it again, and this time without the beer!
Ian's on the left... ;-)
Select to expand quotetightlines said...
Nice work Ian congrats.Ioz said..
I am calling he will do it again, and this time with the cliff section included
that was just a warm up session
maybe a deco next time around and perhaps a small posse Of fellow Kiters ?
Perhaps a small posse of fellow O/50's kiters.
Who else would be silly enough to want to do that though.
Had a coffee with the boys , the missed section is definatly on the cards ,
Just a brief post, to document that the boys were actually in Gero on the trip back!
Select to expand quotecauncy said..tightlines said...
Nice work Ian congrats.Ioz said..
I am calling he will do it again, and this time with the cliff section included
that was just a warm up session
maybe a deco next time around and perhaps a small posse Of fellow Kiters ?
Perhaps a small posse of fellow O/50's kiters.
Who else would be silly enough to want to do that though.
Had a coffee with the boys , the missed section is definatly on the cards ,
I am in. Remote kiting I dig. Love the challenge. 2015 or 2016 ?? let me know..btw how does E to E sound.??? That's Esperence to Exmouth.
Funny you should mention E2E TA, I was thinking the same thing myself.
Around January you usually get some strong Easterlies along the South Coast and the usual strong SSWers on the West Coast.
Select to expand quoteHighzaKite said..HighzaKite said..
Hows this for an idea. Anyone who has commented on here but has not donated put your money where your mouth is and get the tally up to $20k. Yes I have.
spoke too soon...Select to expand quoteHighzaKite said..HighzaKite said..
Hows this for an idea. Anyone who has commented on here but has not donated put your money where your mouth is and get the tally up to $20k. Yes I have.
spoke too soon...
YA looks like my $ 50 made the $ 20,000
Select to expand quotediginoz said..HighzaKite said..HighzaKite said..
Hows this for an idea. Anyone who has commented on here but has not donated put your money where your mouth is and get the tally up to $20k. Yes I have.
spoke too soon...
YA looks like my $ 50 made the $ 20,000
Naah someone had put in $294 which was the difference
Select to expand quoteHighzaKite said..
Hows this for an idea. Anyone who has commented on here but has not donated put your money where your mouth is and get the tally up to $20k. Yes I have.Select to expand quotediginoz said.. YA looks like my $ 50 made the $ 20,000
Nah ... Someone had put in $294 just after my post which was the difference
