2500 km Escape From the Cold with the Starboard Tourer!

So we had 6 people, 6 SUPs, 2 cars. We left our hometown of Saint-Petersburg on the 30th April, with the outside air temperature measuring  8 degrees, with lots of naked trees, we then finished in +28 with lilac’s blooming, hot salty air and t-shirts on. This was teleporting to happiness, Nordic people would understand. Our first stop was in a remote bay that had only a couple of other tents, as soon as we arrived and before we had time to pitch our tents we had the SUPs out. The place we were at had some locals that were eager to see us go, as we apparently camped at their dinner table!

From this campsite, we paddled to the Devil’s Gate. An arch-like cliff where the Ancient Greeks believed to be the gateway to hell. Maybe Orpheus and Oddissey really made it through those gates or it is just a pickup line for the tourists. We couldn’t find the entrance, so just continued paddling along Kara Dag mountain, rocky leftovers of a 150 million years old volcano. We spent 6 hours at sea, got medium rare burnt by the sun and moved further down the coast. We had to spend the next day hiking to cool down and let our skin heal.