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Lifejacket Adventures - Adriatic Kayak Expeditions

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Information from Aussie expats living in Croatia - running an active travel company near Dubrovnik, renovating a traditional wooden boat and fixing-up a hill-top house.

Added on: Dec 23rd, 2007
Country: Croatia (Hrvatska)
Language: English

Author: Lifejacket Adventures
Listed in: Travel Adventure
Tags: croatia kayak wooden boat dubrovnik motovun adriatic sea

Recent Posts

Australian Wallabies 34 – Italian Azzurri 12 (Julie Meets Ray Meagher (Alf) From ‘Home and Away’)

Posted on Saturday June 20th, 2009 at 15:26 in croatia, brad pitt, rugby, split, home and away, wallabies, dalmatia, alf stewart, ray meagher

Today we decided to go to the Irish Pub in Split to watch the rugby union test match between Australia and Italy (Australia won 34-12). There wasn’t a large crowd – just a nice group of 6 Aussies (for Queenslanders) who have just finished...
Leut, Labud, in Today’s Slobodna Dalmacija

Posted on Friday June 19th, 2009 at 10:34 in politics, croatia, split, david hicks, wooden boat, dalmatia, boat building, adriatic sea, traditional dalmatian boats, traditional boat, predikat, don marshall

Today the local newspaper, Slobodna Dalmacija (Free Dalmatia), published a story about our plight to get our boat, the Labud, out of Arista Nautica’s shed. It was a good article, describing how we want to use the boat to promote ‘realR...
David Hicks of Arista Questioned by Croatian Police

Posted on Wednesday June 17th, 2009 at 15:35 in politics, croatia, split, david hicks, dalmatia, boat building, adriatic sea, traditional dalmatian boats, arthur hughes, arista nautica, arista yachts, hidden croatia

David Hicks, of Arista Nautica and Arista Yachts, was questioned today by Croatian police in Split, regarding threats he made to us (Julie Morgan and Shane Braddock) on May 8th to harm us himself or use Ivica Viljac as a weapon. David said on the day...
Ivica Viljac Thrown to the Wolves by Arista Jahti (Yachts)

Posted on Monday June 15th, 2009 at 18:14 in politics, croatia, split, david hicks, dalmatia, boat building, traditional dalmatian boats, traditional boat, arthur hughes, don marshall, arista nautica, arista jahti

Whilst away on a trip this week I received a text message on Friday from David Hicks, an owner of Arista Nautica, who has been holding our leut, Labud, illegally for several weeks, advising me I had some mail at my office. After weeks of trying to ap...
LucasFilm Making “Red Tails” in Motovun

Posted on Monday June 8th, 2009 at 07:40 in movies, history, croatia, tuskegee airmen, terrence howard, world war 2, lucasfilm, method man, cuba gooding jr, istria, motovun, red tails

Arriving this weekend in Motovun to check on the house renovations, we thought we had passed through a time warp back to World War 2 Italy. All signs of modern life had been covered and period props were everywhere. It all was a result of Lucasfilm b...
Rick Steves in Split - and Back to Dionis

Posted on Monday June 1st, 2009 at 10:50 in documentary, travel guide, croatia, food and wine, split, rough guide, rick steves, dalmatia, hvar island, split excursions, konoba dionis, cameron hewitt

The effervescent American travel guide, Rick Steves, is making his way through Croatia filming a new documentary about the country and its neighbors. We had a chance to say hello when we bumped into him filming on the riva. Helping him out was Camero...