Paul Caffyn: A sea kayaking legend

Paul Caffyn is an absolute legend of sea kayaking. His first big trip was in 1977 when he circumnavigated the South Island over four months. That was just the start. Over the coming years he circumnavigated the North Island, Britain, Australia (that took a whole year) , Japan, Alaska, New Caledonia and voyaged from Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia to and around the island of Phuket in Thailand. He's notched up over 40,000 miles in his single West Greenland style kayaks , seeing some of the most remote places in the world from the vantage point of the sea. He's written four different books on his various expeditions, and in 2011 was made an officers of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to sea kayaking and water safety. When he's not on the water, he lives on the West Coast, from where he chats to Kathryn Ryan.