SupervagabondS au pays d'Israfil et Tarja
Notre premier voyage à deux canoës, à chacun son embarcation, à chacun ses méditations.
Ce carnet est dédié à ma fille Amélie,
parce qu'avant de partir j'avais, tout comme elle, sous estimé sa capacité à être vagabonde.
A l'heure de dérouler ce carnet, elle n'attends que de repartir ensemble avec son canoë.
Nous pensions que ce voyage serait bien différent de celui de 2017, effectivement il fut vraiment un cran au dessus, autant dans les émotions de notre relation père fille, qu'au travers des rencontres qui ont eu lieu.
Le titre est aussi un hommage parce que sans ma fille, sans Israfil et Tarja, il y aurait moins d’émotions dans ce carnet.
Ce carnet est aussi un cadeau de noël pour ma fille, parce qu'il n'est pas obligatoire de consommer à outrance pour lui démontrer que je l'aime.
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Our first trip to two canoes, to each his own boat, to each his meditations.
This notebook is dedicated to my daughter Amélie,
because before leaving I had, like her, underestimated her ability to be a vagabond.
When she unrolls this notebook, she is just waiting to leave together with her canoe.
We thought that this trip would be very different from that of 2017, indeed it was really a notch above, as much in the emotions of our father-daughter relationship, as through the meetings that took place.
The title is also a tribute because without my daughter, without Israfil and Tarja, there would be less emotion in this notebook.
This notebook is also a Christmas gift for my daughter, because it is not compulsory to consume excessively to show her that I love her.
Ce carnet est dédié à ma fille Amélie,
parce qu'avant de partir j'avais, tout comme elle, sous estimé sa capacité à être vagabonde.
A l'heure de dérouler ce carnet, elle n'attends que de repartir ensemble avec son canoë.
Nous pensions que ce voyage serait bien différent de celui de 2017, effectivement il fut vraiment un cran au dessus, autant dans les émotions de notre relation père fille, qu'au travers des rencontres qui ont eu lieu.
Le titre est aussi un hommage parce que sans ma fille, sans Israfil et Tarja, il y aurait moins d’émotions dans ce carnet.
Ce carnet est aussi un cadeau de noël pour ma fille, parce qu'il n'est pas obligatoire de consommer à outrance pour lui démontrer que je l'aime.
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Our first trip to two canoes, to each his own boat, to each his meditations.
This notebook is dedicated to my daughter Amélie,
because before leaving I had, like her, underestimated her ability to be a vagabond.
When she unrolls this notebook, she is just waiting to leave together with her canoe.
We thought that this trip would be very different from that of 2017, indeed it was really a notch above, as much in the emotions of our father-daughter relationship, as through the meetings that took place.
The title is also a tribute because without my daughter, without Israfil and Tarja, there would be less emotion in this notebook.
This notebook is also a Christmas gift for my daughter, because it is not compulsory to consume excessively to show her that I love her.
When : 6/24/19
Length : 85 days
Length : 85 days
Total distance :
705km
Height difference :
+3658m /
-4314m
Alti min/max : 54m/258m
Guidebook created by SupervagabondS
on 10 Oct 2019
updated on 22 Jul 2020
updated on 22 Jul 2020
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Global view
Guidebook : Nav 9 / 21 Juillet (updated : 27 Dec 2019)
Section distance :
40.6km
Height difference for this section :
+56m /
-64m
Section Alti min/max : 85m/96m
Report : Nav 9 / 21 Juillet (updated : 27 Dec 2019)
We leave towards Heinola with the certainty of having gone back for nothing: we have not recovered any drone! There are always people to curse but when they are part of your family you don't really know how to do it !!
To calm our frustration of having done so much for nothing, we decide a demanding navigation.
To calm our frustration of having done so much for nothing, we decide a demanding navigation.
Over 40 kilometers under a relentless sun with so little wind.
We navigate in the comfort of heat and water which allows us to refresh ourselves constantly.
We navigate in the comfort of heat and water which allows us to refresh ourselves constantly.
I've been playing the hare for several days already.
You go faster when I'm ahead of you rather than being behind you. We regularly check our speed with GPS and 5 km an hour seems to us the minimum union to respect.
You go faster when I'm ahead of you rather than being behind you. We regularly check our speed with GPS and 5 km an hour seems to us the minimum union to respect.
Sometimes we race to have fun, and I realize your progress in three weeks.
You have a power to be wary of if I don't want to lose our stupid bets!
But what you lack is the experience of better managing your efforts.
You have a power to be wary of if I don't want to lose our stupid bets!
But what you lack is the experience of better managing your efforts.
It is only a matter of time before your resistance to the effort exceeds the capacities of mine.
You have acquired that paddling is meditating, and now we are paddling in silence, there are only breaks to establish our dialogue.
I let you do as never before and you make it profitable for your development.
I watch you walk away with the only certainty that this pleasure of paddling brings us closer.
I watch you walk away with the only certainty that this pleasure of paddling brings us closer.
Your resistance and your adaptation impress me, but I make the father who is content to find that normal.
There is nothing reasonable about love and yet it is this notion of attentions that has brought us here.
There is nothing reasonable about love and yet it is this notion of attentions that has brought us here.
You do not paddle to please me, but certainly for your own satisfaction, I understood this during this navigation.
Leading your boat and being fully responsible for it is like leading your life.
Leading your boat and being fully responsible for it is like leading your life.
The navigation ends and it remains for me, the day during which I had to admit that you had all the capacities to paddle and lead a consequent navigation. I told you, but emotional turmoil often prevents the depth of feelings from surfacing.
We cross Heinola, gorged with the satisfaction of having managed to complete this distance under a blazing sun.
The day ends just after this little bridge at the end of the city. We see a tent set up on the lawn that borders the river while a couple watches us arrive.
- Hei, hello, Do you speak english?
- yes, no problem.
- Is your tent set up there?
-Yes, and where do you come from?
- From Padasjoki 41 km away!
- And is it your wife in the other canoe?
- No, not at all, it's my daughter, she is 13 years old!
- Really, 13 years old, but it's incredible!
- Tell me, do you think we can also pitch our tent to spend the night here ?!
- But of course with pleasure, in addition it is a really quiet corner.
The man takes the time to capture and freeze my gaze, then he reaches out to greet me and say:
- Of course you can settle here, this land is not ours, it belongs to everyone.
And in the solemn way in which he tells me this truth that I approve of so much, I understand that we are going to get to know people who will leave us fond memories.
- yes, no problem.
- Is your tent set up there?
-Yes, and where do you come from?
- From Padasjoki 41 km away!
- And is it your wife in the other canoe?
- No, not at all, it's my daughter, she is 13 years old!
- Really, 13 years old, but it's incredible!
- Tell me, do you think we can also pitch our tent to spend the night here ?!
- But of course with pleasure, in addition it is a really quiet corner.
The man takes the time to capture and freeze my gaze, then he reaches out to greet me and say:
- Of course you can settle here, this land is not ours, it belongs to everyone.
And in the solemn way in which he tells me this truth that I approve of so much, I understand that we are going to get to know people who will leave us fond memories.
This is Mohd and Marina, they live in Helsinki and they are there for two days, they have been coming here for 7 years.
We explain our way of traveling to them and they invite us to share a meal on the lawn, they naturally help us to take the bags out of the canoe and while I pitch the tent, they leave to get the rab for dinner.
We explain our way of traveling to them and they invite us to share a meal on the lawn, they naturally help us to take the bags out of the canoe and while I pitch the tent, they leave to get the rab for dinner.
Mohd and Marina are married for over twenty years. She is Russian and he is Palestinian. They are as curious as they are warm and their life is so different from ours that I also bombard them with questions !
You never know why certain meetings are more enjoyable than others, one of the things that seems to unite us is tolerance of differences and a certain taste for peace !
We all end up agreeing that no one has the truth and everyone has their own. It’s all about the subtlety of knowing how to respect others.
At 3 a.m. it’s time to go to bed.
Mohd asks me:
- Do you drink coffee in the morning?
- No, it's not my thing!
- You drink tea then?
- But if you’re the one making the coffee then I’ll drink one!
- Ok with pleasure, you get up around what time after such a day?
- As it is a day of rest, it is the body that decides, we will see tomorrow morning but we try
not to exceed noon, then tomorrow we have things to do in Heinola.
- Good night, it will remain a good memory of having met you.
- Yes Mohd, it's really good to have met and discussed, I'm going to smoke one under the stars before sleeping, and it would be a pleasure to share it with you!
- No, I never smoke, but I'll join you to continue chatting.
Once in the tent, Amélie, already in bed, wakes up just to say to me:
- Heyyy, it's really great to have met them !
At 3 a.m. it’s time to go to bed.
Mohd asks me:
- Do you drink coffee in the morning?
- No, it's not my thing!
- You drink tea then?
- But if you’re the one making the coffee then I’ll drink one!
- Ok with pleasure, you get up around what time after such a day?
- As it is a day of rest, it is the body that decides, we will see tomorrow morning but we try
not to exceed noon, then tomorrow we have things to do in Heinola.
- Good night, it will remain a good memory of having met you.
- Yes Mohd, it's really good to have met and discussed, I'm going to smoke one under the stars before sleeping, and it would be a pleasure to share it with you!
- No, I never smoke, but I'll join you to continue chatting.
Once in the tent, Amélie, already in bed, wakes up just to say to me:
- Heyyy, it's really great to have met them !
Mohd and Marina asked people on the small beach for information for us.
Nökö then decides to take us to the store which will get us a new tire for the cart and maybe allow us to repair the broken chair. It's a hell of a heat, so being able to avoid walking in the city for hours is really cool!
Nökö then decides to take us to the store which will get us a new tire for the cart and maybe allow us to repair the broken chair. It's a hell of a heat, so being able to avoid walking in the city for hours is really cool!
Nökö speaks English like we do Finnish, but his funny humor makes anyone feel comfortable.
Russian gas cartridges at 2 euros, a new tire and epoxy glue, but nothing to repair the chair, so we buy one.
We spend the rest of the day together, also with Nökö's sister, drinking tea and enjoying the sun.
Meeting people is not wanting to make images of them at any cost, it is rather to keep a precious and sensitive memory of them.
Meeting people is not wanting to make images of them at any cost, it is rather to keep a precious and sensitive memory of them.
The last evening on this bivouac, it is the geese who come to peck at the slightest memory that could persist.
We are however in the city, two minutes from the city center, but there would only be the drone to reveal this ignominy without consequences !