00:00How long until you leave for ProTexas?
00:02About three minutes until we leave.
00:04About three minutes, yeah.
00:05Getting, yeah, the nerves are there but the excitement is there with it.
00:08Heading down towards Poolbeg Lighthouse.
00:10Camping tonight then?
00:11Camping tonight.
00:12And every night.
00:13For the foreseeable.
00:14And every night for the next five months.
00:16We're setting up camp for the first night of our whole journey.
00:20Ha ha ha ha!
00:27First coffee on the road, on the water.
00:30On the what?
00:31Cheers.
00:32Cheers.
00:33Lovehats for the love of our hats.
00:42Day 11, kayaking from Dublin to Istanbul.
00:45We're just about to cross the Irish Sea.
00:47It's a moment we've been waiting for for a long time.
00:49It's a big day, Johnny.
00:50Woo!
00:51It was estimated that it would take about seven to eight hours.
00:54Between 40 and 50 kilometres.
00:55It all depended on how we got on.
00:57Liam had rudder problems straight away.
00:59We seem to have got it sorted.
01:01I'm feeling tired.
01:02Feeling motivated in some way.
01:04And so we began.
01:06Break number two.
01:07Two hours, 20 minutes in.
01:0914 kilometres.
01:10Hello.
01:11I have a sore ass.
01:12Need to pee a bit.
01:13Liam and I are going to attempt a piss.
01:16I've got a bit of a technique here.
01:18Why are you pissing on my body?
01:19I can know what direction for it.
01:20There is.
01:22The aches and pains are there for sure.
01:24It's tough but it's going pretty well.
01:26Over five hours in now.
01:28It's definitely getting tough.
01:30Pretty wrecked now.
01:31Just keep going north.
01:32You're doing fucking awesome.
01:33Okay.
01:34Let's do this.
01:36Lots of pain in the lower body.
01:38I'm mentally tired.
01:40I've been visualising this moment to this music.
01:43Now I'm listening to this music in this moment.
01:46Let's do this thing.
01:48Scotland!
01:52Eight hours in.
01:53Very, very weird current here.
01:55Hour fucking nine.
01:57I just can't wait to get out of this boat.
02:00That's it.
02:01We made it to Scotland.
02:03Just as the sun is setting.
02:04Nine hours and 50 kilometres later we made it to Scotland.
02:08We crossed the Irish Sea.
02:09And this is only the start.
02:11My name is Johnny Coyne.
02:12And currently I'm kayaking from Dublin to Istanbul on a World's First Expedition.
02:17You might be wondering how does this happen?
02:20How does one decide to do this?
02:22About four years ago I bought a bicycle and I started cycling.
02:26Two and a half months later I arrived in the Algarves in Portugal.
02:30But to tell you the truth, adventure was always an escape for me.
02:33When I was about 16 I was put into a programme for troubled teens.
02:39Every Friday instead of school we went and we did outdoor activities.
02:42And that's where adventure started for me.
02:44A year prior my dad had passed away.
02:47So nine years ago today actually.
02:49That kind of led me down a path that was a bit more wild than other people.
02:55But that wildness is still in me.
02:57I've just channeled it into more positive places.
03:00Now I travel the world doing these crazy adventures.
03:03I've also walked across Nepal.
03:06I've cycled from Canada to Costa Rica.
03:08Eight countries in 136 days.
03:11And now I'm kayaking from Dublin to Istanbul on a World's First Expedition.
03:15And there's plenty more to come.
03:17I'm not stopping anytime soon.
03:19I love this life. It's life for me.
03:21If you want to join me on my journeys drop me a follow.
03:24And you're going to see some crazy shit happen in the next few years.
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