Queenscliffe Maritime Museum
Vehicle - Kayak and journal
... Earl de Bonville... Earl de Bonville Earl Bloomfield Sea Kayak, Nordkapp design ...
Australia’s first modern sea kayak expedition: “The journey they said couldn’t be done”
Members: Earle de Blonville & John Brewster
First kayak expedition to circumnavigate Tasmania’s 1,600 km coastline
Route: The 1798-99 route of Bass and Flinders in the ‘Norfolk’
Start and finish Georgetown: anticlockwise via the west coast and Hobart.
Media covers the Tasmania expedition itself, plus the pre-Tasmania training voyages in Scotland and the Hebrides, plus resulting articles.Kayak used in 1979 circumnavigation of Tasmania by Earl Bloomfield, accompanied by journal of expedition and photographs Sea Kayak, Nordkapp designsea kayak, circumnavigation of tasmania, earl de bonville, earl bloomfield