A Special Treat

Many of you have been crying out to see pictures of me ripping it up in my kayak. As you know being a semi-pro kayaker is my job, when i'm on the water i'm working. This is how i earn my living. As a feast for your eyes here is a photo of me throwing a huge Bread and Butter.

Colours and me

Ok girls, in dreamier moments you’ve probably been thinking about what colours a handsome guy like me would look best in (that’s if you don’t get him naked of course). But no, that advice isn’t what I’m looking for. It’s my boat. My loop-the-loop Rad 170. While it’s glorious green and yellow speckles have served me well on my aquatic ambles for the past 2 years, I’m not sure that the colours adequately express my most enduring qualities. I spend so much time in my boat it feels like a big part of me and the colours need to express that.

So what do my fans think? We’ve got green, which symbolises fertility. No problems there ladies. Then yellow, which symbolises wisdom and joy. But what about purple, the colour of royalty? It’s no stretch of the truth to think of me as king of the wave. Those squirts and loops are kingly to say the least. But I think the colour that sums me up best is Gold.

That’s right, I’m on the look-out for a solid gold Rad 170. I aim to be the first white man to paddle a solid gold rad down the White Nile in the history of, well, the universe.

By the way, don’t think I’ve ignored the clamorous requests for photos of me avec kayak. You all thought right, I do look pretty good in it. I’ll do my best to oblige with some aqua pics sometime soon.

Poetry Corner

Had some time to myself last night so I put pen to paper, just thought to share my thouhgts with ye guys.

I don't do this for the fun or the pleasure,
My determination, no-one can measure,
I dont need nobodys help in my quest,
To beat the rest,
and be the best.

There aint ever been no river,
That'd make me stop and shiver,
I'll run it, nail it, huck it,
Those who doubt me, suck it,
Long Distance keeps me fit.

I'll head upriver each day,
not even a sweat as i break 37 K,
45mins return trip is no chore,
The ease of it is a bore,
Leaves me craving for more.

Playboating is my Ace,
Beginners get outta my face,
My skills to share cost a price,
pro's like me dont have to be nice,
Get out nd learn like i did in the slice.

4 and a half ends, a 2 min bow stall,
Wanna learn more? Ladies gimme a call,
My skills you cannot lie,
Are a pleasure on the eye,
Paddle with me, we'll reach the sky.

Girls!

As you can tell from my photos, i'm a pretty good looking guy and, as a result, I tend to get a lot of female fan mail. That's great, most of you cool chicks will be glad to hear that I'm now on the market and looking for love. If, however, you want to be with me you must be able to go the distance and I don't mean that in a metaphorical way. I try to paddle at leat 37 miles of flatwater each day. I can do it in about 45 minutes now but my all time record is 28 seconds, and two breaths of air. I don't expect you to be at this level of extreme mental and physical fitness but i would accept nothing less than a girl who can cover 20 miles of flatwater in half an hour or under.

Me again!

Hey dudes, just about found some time to up more photos, my hectic civil engineering course doesnt leave me much time for anything, no partys, no paddling, no fun, nothing but the 17mins a day it takes to dress up and take a photo.

Soon I might have give up paddling for good...yikes

I Like my hair in these pictures, hope you guys do too!

People often ask me...

A lot of people ask me whether i am crazy. To that i have one answer:

1. Would a crazy person be able to complete the Liffey Descent without taking a single breath?

My Motivation
So a lot of my fans have been asking me why? why do you do it? Well to this i have but one answer:
1. I started this series the day i entered college. At that stage i was already a highly advanced profiency extreme and endurance kayaker (My achievements include completion of the Ballinasloe Invitational Challenge, twice and first descent of the Lower Corrib, in short, i never swim) (ever). I wanted to document how four years of extreme and endurance kayaking along with a strenuous engineering course on top of a tempestous two year relationship with an undesclosed Clare girl would affect my subtle good looks.


She broke my heart.

1st post

Hey guys, my name is Eoin and I've been taking pictures of myself everyday for the last few years to map the changes I've gone through, Its gonna take me a while to upload all the pictures so I'm gonna start it off with 2003 and work it up.