MEET THE TEAM

SUZIE DALE
Suzie lives in Bellingham, Washington and is in the Recreation program at Western Washington University. She discovered her love for sea kayaking on a NOLS course in Alaska.

"The cure for anything is salt water --- sweat, tears, or the sea" Isak Dinesen

TRISHA WILKIE
Trisha, 22, is from many places, having moved every five years since small. She studied Geology at Western Washington University. She started kayaking at 12 and after spending the past three years guiding, it became time for her to take a serious personal paddle. She ventures into Baja unable to cage her excitement for the meeting of her favorite spaces- desert and ocean.

"Of course you love the desert, it use to be the ocean's floor" Leslie Silko

FREWIN HERMER
Frewin, 26, came as a baby to the US from South Africa. He got his degree in Recreation from Western Washington University. He moves between Orcas Island, Florida and California passing on his passion for the environment by teaching outdoor education. This is his third kayak trip in Baja but his first serious one.

"Castles made of sand melt into the sea" Jimi Hendrix

RACHEL BROWN
Rachel, 22, is from Chattanooga, TN and an alumni of Brevard College in Western North Carolina. At Brevard College she developed her passion for the wilderness and skills for guiding. After graduation she went from hiking and climbing in the mountains to leading sea kayaking trips in the San Juan Islands where she met the expediton team.

"The rock is like the surface of the sea, constant yet never the same." James Salter

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