This 5 days kayak tour is a tour around Väinameri ( 5-9 th of August). We visit about 10 different islands and paddle about 100 km. We start from Virtsu and end up in Rohuküla, we visit Kessulaid, Hiiumaa islets, Harilaid and Vormsi. We look for seals and hike around the small islands.

The idea to go on a longer expedition was already born 2 years ago. At that time, the school was still in progress, army was waiting ahead and busy summer schedule made it impossible to go on a longer tour. Therefore, the idea of ​​the expedition was delayed continuously until the Christmas of 2012. Route options were different, but the route which we finally selected was tour around the fourth and seventh largest islands in the Baltic Sea, Saaremaa and Hiiumaa.

The whole event will be publicated in a longer series of blog posts. The idea is to give an overview of our weekly doings in connection with preparations for trip, starting with setting a more or less accurate route and ending with complete list equipment and explanations. Later, during the tour itself, we hope to deliver news and summary of the days event every evening.If technically possible, we are also planning to capture the expedition with cameras. We also have a facebook page, where we will discuss smaller problems and topic and also carry out a contest.

The total length of the tour should be about 600 kilometers, and we have set the time limit of the expedition to 10-12 days, depending on the weather and various other factors. We will be using three single kayaks.

Many of you may question,why should three young guys go on a kayaking tour around two of the largest Estonian islands. The answer is relatively simple, the desire to put ourselves to the test in the new, more or less extreme situations. Furthermore, we want promote kayaking culture and ecotourism in Estonia. Our country has a rich and interesting coastline which offers many spectacular views and is definitely worth considering as a vacation location for anyone.

A little about ourselves. We are kayaking guides, working for a Estonian ecotourism company, 360 Degrees. I, Joosep, own a ten years long paddling experience, for  Kristjan and Riho, this years summer will be their third season. We have gone through different training courses here in Estonia under our own paddling experts.

Make sure to tune yourself in next week as well, since the we will be releasing more or less accurate route with explanations.

If you have any questions, suggestions, etc,  you can contact us via the email address This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , or write to our Facebook page.

Saaremaa, Hiiumaa 2013 expeditions Facebook page is located at:

https://www.facebook.com/SaareHiiuMuhu

Facebook page is mostly operated in estonian, but most definitely every now and then we will post something in English as well

Throw us a like on facebook  and stay tuned for more!

Kind regards,

Joosep

Riho

Kristjan

We spent the weekend in the Alutaguse forests intent on looking for tracks from bears waking from their winter hibernation. We found the tracks of one male bear.

At the end of February and at the beginning of March is the best time for skiing on the fast ice in West of Estonia in Väinameri. Well the skiing is one part, but also it gives us great opportunity to look for seals, who are giving a birth during this time.

During the Estonian winter we do several snowshoeing trips to watch wildlife and track wolf pack and lynx.

In the 10 th of January we were in Alutaguse with ETV to film wolf tracks. Of course, we needed to find the tracks first. Luckily our colleague saw fresh ones and we headed the area he pointed.

In the 5 th of Feb, one of the coldest day in Estonian winter 2012,  we went to North of Kõrvemaa to hike with snowshoes.

Just before hike we found fresh wolf pack tracks and of course we just follow them and we didnt know where we might end up.

At the beginning there was 2 wolves we followed in some point there was third one as well. The track headed quite strait to east, passed Elk, Mountain Hare, Red Fox, Wild Boar tracks.

New two day tour to Hiiumaa 13-14 th of August. One more  kayak tour to Hiiumaa in our calender.

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In 2011 Tallinn and Turku are Capitals of Culture. Group of Estonian and Finnish kayakers decide to join this two cities by kayaking from Tallinn to Turku. Expedition starts in 17 –th of July at 13:00 and lasts about ten days. Distance is about 300 km. Group plans to kayak 20- 40 km per day.

Tommi Hendriks, group leader from Finland side, made expedition route plan.

Expedition starts next to Linnahall in Tallinn and ends in Turku Kayaking Club.

We clip on snowshoes and follow the tracks of wolf pack.

We see the young wolves playing, adult males and female marking the territory, old preys, wolves sleeping spots on the snow,  scats and lot of tracks. Its great to see all this. Looks like wolves had been at the same spot for a long time.