Venice and Italy 2009 Nigel and Kristin will be instructing and leading tours in Italy, May 31- June 7th 2009. We'd love you to join us! For more details check the bibionekayak site. On 31st May will be the famous race and tour around the city of Venice. We will be paddling this route, along with thousands of others from around the World, and would love to have you along! For more information about that event (which you can tie in with bibionekayak) check the Vogalonga site After Vogalonga will be a menu of watery visits to historic towns, restaurants and opportunities to join classes with Nigel and Kristin on the warm Adriatic Sea or the sheltered lagoon on the other side of the sand-beach island, culminating in the 2nd Italian International Sea Kayak Symposium. Come join the fun!
Iceland 2008! Nigel and Kristin visited Iceland late May and early June 2008! Check out Kristin's blog entry for some different aspects of a wonderful and special visit!
(2008 dates... April 5/6 (Portland), June 28/29 (Deception Pass), July 26/27 (Portland) and Oct 4-5 (Oregon Coast.) Image by Joel Rogers
Sweetwater Kayaks of St Petersburg Floridahold an annual symposium in February. Warm water in winter is a great attraction if you want to learn to roll, to surf or simply to soak some sun while you play on the water. With British Canoe Union courses, Greenland style classes, and "I want to learn, but I want to have fun" classes available through the previous week, the symposium is the finale at one of USA's best beach locations. Nigel rarely misses this event, although he was in New Zealand during the 2007 festivities. 2008 dates were 23-25th February preceded by BCU and Greenland courses 18-21st Feb. Check out the Sweetwater Kayakssite!
Aqua-Adventures of San Diego California run a great symposium at the end of March or early April each year withskills classes on flat water, surf sessions on the coast, live music around the evening fire-pit and a host of fun instructors from around the world. Meet Nigel at the next symposium, March 27-29 2009
Always a good event for meeting new people and making connections. Instructors and friends headed south after the 2008 event to play along Jen Kleck's favorite local coastal playground in Baja Mexico...
Charleston South Carolina is a great place to be in April! Nigel offers classes and presentations at the East Coast Canoe and Kayak Festival on James Island, April 17-19 2009. For more details check out the "Charleston County Park and Rec. Commission" site. 2008 saw a wonderful festival with a great crowd of fun people taking classes, attending presentations and test-paddling kayaks. I can't wait for the 2009 event!
Orust Kayaks Sweden....
Sweden is one of Nigel's "must-go-to" destinations. He visits every summer. Why not take the opportunity this year to enjoy five days touring the west coast archipelago with Nigel and Kristin?
We'll choose interesting places to camp on the islands, work on new paddling skills and fine-tune old ones as we travel north.
Orust kayaks coordinate these tours. There will be two West Coast Tours in 2008 in August followed by the west coast Sweden weekend paddling festival on the island of Orust.
Nicus Nature, in Denmark,September
Nigel will be teaching half-day skills classes, two per day, at Nicus Nature in early September 2008, and a multiday camping tour in the Danish islands, with instruction. If you'd like to learn more about these, check the Nicus Nature site. (see photos of the 2007 tour)
Here's the Nicus Nature hat. (in New Zealand)
Seattle Area Classes run periodically with the Seattle Mountaineers Club. The early 2008 dates included 5 Jan, 12 Jan, 2 Feb, 9 Feb, 10 Feb. Contact Seattle Mountaineers for details later courses.
Ocean River on Vancouver Island BC hosted classes April 13, 14th and 15th 2007. There was also a slide presentation on Friday April 13th by Nigel and Kristin on sea kayaking with Ice Bears, with donations applied to the WWF specifically to help protect polar bears. Ocean River has already expressed interest in having Nigel back next year... please let them know if you would be interested to attend skills classes, surf classes or rough water classes. (1-800-909-4233, or mail@oceanriver.com)
Kano and Kajak Butikken, Charlottenlund Denmark May 17 2007 click on www.kajak.dk
Kajakhotellet Copenhagen Denmark. On the morning of 18th May 2007 Nigel offered an on-water class with Kayakhotellet, with the opportunity to test-paddle Point65 Kayaks with Nigel Foster during the afternoon. There are some photos on the Kajakhotellet site. (Kajakhotellet sells both Point65 and Nigel Foster kayaks.)
Scottish Sea Kayak Symposium, Isle of Skye, May 07
Sweetwater Kayaks of St Petersburg Florida hold an annual symposium in February. Warm water in winter is a great attraction if you want to learn to roll, to surf or simply to soak some sun while you play on the water. With British Canoe Union courses, Greenland style classes, and "I want to learn, but I want to have fun" classes available through the previous week, the symposium is the finale at one of USA's best beach locations. Nigel rarely misses this event, although he was in New Zealand during the 2007 festivities. 2008 dates were 23-25th February preceded by BCU and Greenland courses 18-21st Feb. Check out the 
