Everything about Rey’s life now revolved on, in and around the water wearing a skirt with a paddle in hand. On the water on a daily basis for the past 6 years, he could count the days he was away from it! Rey believes each of us has this one great adventure waiting to happen. It is just a matter of unlocking one’s self to allow it to happen, make everything fall in its place naturally & live in the natural flow of being.
“My father was from a group of islands between Cebu & Leyte. After he shared the sea with me as a child, I had an inseparable connection with the water. Without fast crafts & ferry liners then, going home to my father’s island was a journey – crisscrossing the islands on small bancas & trudging dusty dirtroads was the usual way, the only way! These experiences I sort of relive when I paddle. As if slow motion when the moments ceased fleeting, I became a kid again! On the water, everything became an exploration of the senses – you have all this time to reflect on everything…why I love kayaking and why i will never stop!”
Like all sea-kayakers he dreams of one day paddling to that village at the end of the world, to the birthplace of kayaking in the Arctic Greenland.
Rey is the General Manager for Philippines and has a ACA level 3, first aid, & Kayakasia’s advanced sea kayak guiding cert.