Quotes

From my deep and extensive knowledge of flora, I identify the tall trees and thick vines as Tarzan vegetation. Everything around us is wild. With every second I am falling deeper in love with this place.

Hendri Coetzee

Surrounded by the bush, I listen to the sounds of insects, birds, river and animals, weaving a hammock, in which I lay suspended in ecstasy and let euphoria wash over, under and through me. I see clearer, hear more finely, think purer and feel more at peace lying there under that tree, surrounded by my great adventure, than perhaps ever before. For long blissful minutes I fit perfectly in the world.

Hendri Coetzee

We might do all the wrong things in the present’ but at least we are living in it and in that lays more power than people realize. It’s hard to doubt that we are on the right track when the Universe provides everything we need during a constant stream of outrages adventures that lead clearly to our dream. It seems to me the only requisite for a full life is enthusiasm. We are undoubtedly making life harder and I would not recommend this system to everyone. Living from hand to mouth while finding the resources to party like rock stars can be an up and down ride and a dangerous game to play.

Hendri Coetzee

Today is the best day ever because tomorrow might not happen.

Hendri Coetzee

I want to be a true adventurer, an explorer. I want to be tested, to live without the safety net and find out what I am made of. I want the freedom and adventure of the unknown. I want to be a great white explorer. Only a few steps from me lay the vehicle to my dream. A mission of epic enough proportions to offer me the challenge I crave. Something so outrages that it was last tried 50 years ago and only partially completed

Hendri Coetzee

For all the men and women who feel the call of adventure but for who it is too far removed, our alternative lifestyle must act as a balance for the system as a whole. People are fascinated by the things they cannot do themselves. Our accounts of those experiences are a window for them.

Hendri Coetzee

In a way all explorers are journalist. Reporting from places other can’t go. Speaking from experience and not fiction. Blessed with no special powers or skills, often simply able to make the sacrifices needed to live and experience things other cannot or will not. We can fund our passion only by allowing others to live vicariously through our eyes, our aim is to experience, not explore.

Hendri Coetzee

I wake up at midnight with these words on my lips that want to be written:

  1. Thank You for the flat rock I sleep on
  2. Thank You for the peace I feel
  3. Thank You for the chance to live my dreams
Hendri Coetzee

Extreme kayaking is not a sport where you can have a quickie. In skydiving you can have a jump every month or so and still enjoy. It’s over in a few minutes. Kayaking is a ladder and once you get to the top, you fight to stay there. Fear is as natural, constant and persistent as gravity. Without strong wings you fall. My inability to train for this mission was forced on me and that softens the disappointment. Instead of bliss, I merely feel happy to be alive. It still beats a kick in the balls, but if alive is all I wanted, I could have stayed at home.

Hendri Coetzee

Whatever our passions are we must feed them, we must invest in them we must build them even if they are castles in the sky. By being hard it becomes beautiful, by being irrational it becomes necessary.

Hendri Coetzee