Thanks so much for visiting my site… I hope you enjoy the stories and images you find here and that it may inspire you to search for your next adventure or motivate your sense of exploration!
Guide and Instructor Services / Brand Ambassador
Are you looking for an Outdoor Instructor to help on your next activity or club event? Would you like to get some personal kayak skills coaching, get qualified or push your paddling forward with a tailored guided trip?. As a Qualified Paddle Australia Sea Kayak Guide / Instructor and Assessor and winner of Instructor / Guide of the year for 2018/2019, I am available for contract work to your Business or Club and can provide private coaching services. If you would like to discuss your activity needs or are interested in doing some kayaking training or tailored guided kayaking trips then I would love to chat further. Please get in touch with me at tracemystepscontact@gmail.com
I am also lucky enough to be part of the Guide team for a wonderful community orientated group called Women Want Adventure. Our goal at WWA is to build a supportive and welcoming community of women who feel empowered, inspired and connected through outdoor adventure. Please check out the website for upcoming trips to be a part of the action at www.womenwantadventure.com.au and check out who we are at www.womenwantadventure.com.au/our-team.html
Coming up for me in 2020 I will be part of the Sea Kayak Guide team for Aurora Expeditions and Southern Sea Ventures, heading to the Arctic circle on the new vessel “Greg Mortimer”. This stunning ship is fully equiped to provide superior comfort when you return from a day of exploring in some of the most remote wilderness on the planet. The trips offer amazing excursions to experience the ice flow, wild life and stunning vistas of the region cruising from Iceland to Jan Mayen, Svalbard and Franz Joseph Land. If you are keen for an adventure of a lifetime and would like to join me then please check out the website www.auroraexpeditions.com.au
As part of my fun in the outdoors I have become a Brand Ambassador for Livingstone Brand, an amazing company that, like me, is passionate about the natural environment. Livingstone Brand is based in Calgary, Alberta Canada and its name drawn from the nearby magnificent Livingstone River. I truely identify with their mission which is to spread the love we have for the outdoors. They do this by providing high quality, durable, and safe outdoor gear and apparel and I do this by showing you how I use their product to enjoy my outdoor adventures and in sharing my images I hope this helps inspire your own travels. Livingstone Brand wants each of their products to reflect the elements we appreciate about our country’s wild landscapes. They make a fantastic backpack that you will see featured in my social media posts.
If you would like to purchase one of these awesome, compact, collapsible, lightweight Livingstone Brand Alberta 25Ltr Backpacks simply click the link below to make your secure payment.
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Right now you can get 10% off the 25Ltr Aberta Backpack if you purchase it from my website. Just use the code AMBASSADORPROMO10 at the checkout. I do receive a small commission from sales through my website which I truely appreciate and that helps me on my way to my next adventure!.
About Tracy Gibson
I started out studying a Bachelor of Communications but was quickly drawn away from the corporate arena by my love of the outdoors. Since then I have been leading Outdoor Education and Kayaking programs in Australia and around the world. Even though I grew up on horseback and hiking around a rural property it was my love of the water and all things adventure that lead me to pursuing a professional career as a Kayaking Instructor and I have found over the years it is an amazing way to explore the planet. It’s the sense of freedom that kayaking provides and the endless variety in what you will experience in a day on the water that is so exciting, challenging and rewarding and has a way of changing the way you look at the world, engage with people and appreciate what our environment has to offer us as a teacher. Combining my love of the surf with kayaking I have also represented Australia at the Surf Kayak World Championships in 2007, 2009 and 2013 where I took out the title of Women’s HP World Champion.
I started making videos and writing Blogs about my travels just as a way to record the journey. It is the best way to savour the moments and photos, remember the people and places and to reminisce later to inspire my next experience. Whilst I still love to guide trips and coach in my spare time today I am combining my love of writing and adventure into a new full time career direction in Tourism to help promote our wonderful natural environment.
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“Trace My Steps” Blog
Life In Transit….
I guess when you really think about it we are all just living a life in transit, even if we don’t really venture further than our own backyards and as I get older I do find myself contemplating more often what it all means. As I walk slowly through the airport I am fascinated by …
Chair Lift Stories
I was going to call this blog “Don’t be afraid to go Solo” but when thinking through the story I wanted to tell, it became less about me and more about the people I met. As the snow is falling again and the ski season opening weekend is upon us I was thinking about my …
Greenland and the mystery of the Ice
As I begin to write this Blog about our Sea Kayaking Trip to Southwest Greenland, already I am struggling to find the words to properly describe what we saw and the sense of peace you get from being totally immersed in that powerful, raw and beautiful landscape without seeing another person outside our small team …
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