I have some close friends who are very passionate about marine conservation and in particular our shark population. Their passion has rubbed off on me and I have fallen in love with my friends in grey suits.

My china’s, Olivia Symcox, Mark and Gail Addison are going to be filming live for Nat Geo this Friday from Shark Park.

I helped out with a launch at the Green Hub and kindly Olivia Jones Communications crew sent me there pic's

Team Jeep SA's Gareth Harrington and myself

Brandon Van Der Walt and myself in the rain. Watch Brandon in the coming months. He...

I did a cool interview with Gareth Harrington from Team Jeep on his blog Living This.

Check it out here:

http://living-this.com/2011/11/interview-friday-barry-lewin/

Cranking down an open ocean run, heart pumping, full of adrenalin, it doesn’t get much better. Everything about this event caters for the surfski enthusiast.

The ocean is just alive in East London with some of the best downwind a paddler can find and this year it delivered again. I hopped on a little one hour flight down the east coast on Friday and got picked up by the part time comedian unofficial mayor of Nahoon, Brendan Thompson and spent the rainy aft...

If you keen to check out my Triple Challenge data it's up on Garmin connect here:

http://connect.garmin.com/activity/127707448# 

My best thing about Garmin is checking out my race tracks. Proud of this one!

I have had a great response to my blog/race report on Triple Challenge here and have had many requests for the full post of the speech I quoted in the blog. Found it on youtube. Enjoy!

In the past I really thought that events like Triple Challenge were crazy and a little stupid. This mind-set wasn’t just around Triple but any event that didn’t fit my vibe at the time. This was out of pure lack of perspective.

I never went near events like Cape Point, PE-EL or Scottbrugh to Brighton on the surfski front as they would hurt and I would have to work just a little harder.

Well a friend reminded me of a quote from the mov...