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TRUE KAYAKERS’ NIGHT

  

„It's time to leave the capsule if you dare“ – this is what I occasionally say to our guests when they are about to step little bit out of their comfort zone whether it is paddling into the wind around some rocky point or climbing an exposed route. Those are in fact David Bowie’s lyrics from Space Oddity, one of the most memorable songs ever.

The great artist left this world and although you never related him to kind of activities we do his life seems like an outstanding personal adventure, a courageous journey oftentimes into unmapped territories before GPS was invented. Creative, original, willing to experiment, take new paths and abandon old ways, he has inspired people for decades.

Now the story gets little personal (despite blog experts’ advices). Anyway I remember clearly and vaguely at the same time one night in Hvar some 10 years ago when few of us kayakers and friends met up the Teraca (meaning terrace) bar next to the famous old Hvar theater overlooking the square. That warm summer night we, powered by local carob grappa, developed a theory of “True kayakers” and what they do, like, eat, drink, laugh about and such…the list would be too long if I only could recall it now or perhaps too personal but among those rare surviving lines is: - A true kayaker listens to Bowie!!!
Years have passed, many strokes pushed us sometimes in circles and ever further, people came, left, adventurers became priests, lovers vanished and children were born, the world seems crazy like never before, who knows if we’ll ever get together like we did that night, I only now that I won’t forget us all at Teraca bar, and Bowie has something to do with it.

Teraca bar and some of us from that night

"floating in a most peculiar way" somewhere around Vis island

I’ll dedicate some nice and new kayak trip to you David Bowie, goodbye...