“The Race Around Australia Expedition”

Expected to take her roughly one year, the 9,400 mile (15.000 km) journey around the southern continent is considered one of, if not the, most challenging trip in the world of sea kayaking. While there have been dozens of attempts, Freya will become the first woman to complete the journey and only the second person since Paul Caffyn did it twenty-seven years ago.

What makes it so formidable?

Huge salt water crocodiles, Great White sharks, venomous sea snakes and deadly jelly fish, massive surf, exposed crossings, the challenge of coordinating freshwater and food dumps, hundreds of kilometres of sheer cliffs without any landing zones and destroying cyclones are some of the most daunting treats – not to mention the tropical heat and physical toll it will take to average up to thrity-five miles (~ sixty Kilometers) per day for one year.

• Solo Trip

• 78% loaded - 22% unloaded

• 13.790 km 

• 332 days

• 245 paddling days

• 56,3 km per day on average

• 10,8 hrs daily average

• Fastest ever circumnavigation

• 2nd person

• 1st woman

• 8 days - 625 km solo crossing of the Gulf of Carpentaria

• 170 + 160 + 185 km unlandabe cliffs

• 13 nights afloat

• Shark bite into the stern

• 5 time zones