How I remember Hendri…
Jonathan Carden (USA)
Jonathan never met Hendri, was only inspired by reading an article about him! He wrote this on Facebook I set out sometimes, all alone,…
Read MoreGeoff Richards (USA)
I first met Hendri in West Virginia running the New and the Gualey River and we hit it off pretty good. When Hendri knew…
Read MoreJustin Venable (New Zealand)
I met Henri is 2005 in Uganda… We had mutual respect, shared common goals and ideologies, felt a similar passion for living life to…
Read MoreAnonymous from Norway
You have the spirit off an adventurer of old, with the desire to go where no one has gone before, see and do things…
Read MoreDaniel Rea-Dickens (UK)
I freelanced for Hendri on his tubing business in Uganda after going on my “gap year” after school in the UK… He was an…
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Kara Blackmore (Uganda/UK/USA)
One person can be a catalyst to change your life. As cliché as it sounds it can happen. Some people go on missions to…
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Matthew Fader (Sweden)
… Hendri affected our lives in such an incredible and positive way… When I moved from California to Sweden in 1998, I started Swedish…
Read MoreChris Korbulic (USA)
Much can and has been said about Hendri, but to me it’s simple. Hendri was a friend I grew to love and learn from…
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Iselin Ostvang (Norway)
My first reading of some of Hendri Coetzee’s writing in an email to me: Ingredients for the Best Day Ever Get out of bed…
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Celine Prudhomme Madsen
I met Hendri for the first time during spring 2003 on my first 2-day rafting trip. After a day packed with rafting actions, we…
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Rob Coffey
I kayaked with Hendri at the start of his Norway period in 2005. We got on like a house on fire. His kayaking skills on the steep…
Read MoreLynda Hallamish (Israel) She sadly passed away since
He lived, loved, played, learned experienced, touched, with that 200% intensity and drive and warmth that engulfed you and everyone that ever crossed his…
Read MoreLouis Tapper (New Zealand)
Louis wrote this about Hendri on his own blog… I met Hendri in Uganda 4 years ago when he was training for the first…
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Seth Warren (USA)
I thought you might like this, it is a little piece I wrote for a tribute article for Hendri: The fall of 2004 at…
Read MoreMelissa De Mari (USA)
I met Hendri in the spring of 2008. I had been raft guiding for a few years already, but decided to learn to kayak.…
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Chris Kidd (Uganda/Canada)
I live in Uganda and Hendri, Chris and Ben spent three days with me and my wife in Kisoro, on the border with Rwanda…
Read MoreElmarie Marais (Australia)
Thank you, The Great White Explorer, for opening my eyes. For giving me a head start in weaving my hammock, seeing clearer, hearing more…
Read MoreRomain Mari (France)
I have not known Hendri a whole lot, but I have known him enough for him to greatly affect my vision of life and…
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Marc Myers (Norway)
The impact that Hendri had on many of us was inspiring. He did so much in following his passions and always tested his own…
Read MoreJoe Henry (UK)
From that I joined his Blue Nile trip in Nov 2006, needless to say that was brilliant and lead to many more great adventures…
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Jaco Nieman (Step brother in South Africa)
Jaco wrote these two very special poems for Hendri which was captured in the Centurion memorial leaflet on 28 Jan 2011: Remember me…
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Bingo (Uganda)
I will really miss his company and the calm and peace he carried around with him always struck me as a solution to the…
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Marie Coetzee Nieman (South Africa)
Marie, Hendri’s mother, wrote this prayer for his Memorial in Uganda on 8 January. It was there printed and distributed to friends who were…
Read MoreCorne van Biljon (South Africa)
Hendri decided at one stage to cut off all the couch potatoes and side liners on his social network. He felt it was a…
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Nicky Stroebel (New Zealand)
When I met Hendri he was a shy, inexperienced soul just out of the army and I honestly can’t believe what he has managed…
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Andrew McMartin (Canada)
I met Hendri when I was 20, over 10 years ago! He took care of me in Uganda, on the river and all that…
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Jim Cummings (Norway)
I’m just writing to say that Hendri was point blank a legend, he had friends all over the world, and was renowned for his…
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Kaya Melesi (Uganda/Kenya)
Hendri is probably the most amazing human being I have ever been lucky to know. And I really mean that from the bottom of…
Read MoreDave Humpleby (United Kingdom)
We met in Livingstone, Zambia. When we first met there he had never sat in a kayak before. Yet in the space of a…
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Gustav Nel (Canada)
Hendri se dood is soos ‘n reuse boom wat afgekap is in die bos waar hy skaduwee vir almal gegee het. Maar sy hout…
Read MoreEileen Morrow (Ireland)
I met him Hendri the first time in Jinja in November 2005, he was immediately unforgettable for his whip smart sense of humour and…
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Celliers Kruger (Fluid Kayak Founder and sponsor of Hendri, SA)
Hendri walked into my office a couple of years ago, asking for sponsorship. By that time we knew about each other for a while…
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