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Crossing the Ditch
The next adventure...Another world first!
To find out more details of this record breaking adventure, check out their new website;www.casandjonesy.com.au.You'll find heaps of videos, photos and blogs about the journey from draggin' tyres up the steepest hills in Sydney to training down at the Aussie Alps. Have a look around and feel free to give us some suggestions- we'd love to hear your thoughts.
The boys are currently up in the Arctic for four weeks where temperatures are currently hovering around -35 degrees celsius. They are training and testing all the systems they'll need to stay alive in Antarctica. They will be sending updates every week to: www.casandjonesy.com.au - so stay tuned!
TRANS TASMAN KAYAK EXPEDITION
Crossing the Ditch was the world's first Trans-Tasman kayak expedition from Australia to New Zealand. Through committing ourselves to achieving one of "Australia´s last great first" adventures, we wish to inspire others not to be afraid of pursuing their own adventures and dreams.
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9 November 2010 - BANFF WINNERS!!
On top of the World!!
On Sunday night at 7.30pm (Banff time) Cas and I were stoked to find out that the Crossing the Ditch documentary WON it's category for best film on adventure and exploration at the Banff Mountain Film Festival in Canada - the "el primo" outdoor film festival in the world!!
WHAT A FREAKING HONOUR!! When we dreamt up the idea to paddle across the ditch back in 2001 we never thought that we would have the opportunity to share it on the world stage at a festival like Banff!! A big thanks to the crew from Quail Television for helping this all to happen especially Greg Quail and Doug Howard who saw the merit in our expedition and made it possible for us to share our little trip with the rest of the world!
Crossing the Ditch was also a very close runner up to take out the People's Choice Award for the entire festival and has also been selected for the World Tour that travels through 30 countries and screens up to 590 times. Hopefully the local organisers select our doco to be seen at most of the venues!
Unfortunately Cas and I weren't able to celebrate this success over there and pick up the award (we were stuck back in Oz) but good friend Anthony Bonello (who also had a cracker of a film in the festival called AZADI: Freedom) was able to pick up the award for us!
To read more about this and the other winners check out the Banff media release here.
So where were James and Justin whilst this was all happening...
The last two months has seen James and I busily bury our heads and work full steam ahead on getting the next expedition up and running and getting as much done before we disappear before the end of the year...we're looking to launch early in the new year so keep an eye out!!
Cheers
Jonesy
7 September 2010 - A sad day for the CTD Family
RIP Graham Chapman
Graham Chapman working on Lot 41
Last week, whilst down at the snow training for the next expedition, Jonesy and I were absolutely gutted to find out that Graham Chapman passed away from a massive heart attack.
Grahame was the master who built our beautiful kayak - Lot 41. I'll never forget the day when mum came up to look at the kayak being built and he promised my mum "Nothing will happen to them - I promise you this kayak will make it to New Zealand. I'll make sure of it"
Our thoughts are with Sue (Graham's wife) and the rest of his family. Graham, mate - thanks for the friendship, support and belief in us...I look forward to throwing down a few VB stubbie with you and talking about how we can eek a couple of more kms/hr out of Lot 41 in a coupla decades time!
