Friendly fishermen and dolphins were all that 47-year-old Sandy Robson had for company while she kayaked along India’s western coast. The free spirit is kayaking alone from Germany to Australia – a distance of 50,000 km. She began her journey in May 2011 and has so far covered 6,000 km.

Ms Robson is retracing German canoeist Oskar Speck’s journey in a kayak along the same stretch, from 1932 to 1939. In the process, she will also become the first woman to paddle along the Indian coast – from Gujarat to West Bengal, from where she will travel to Bangladesh and reach Australia, her homeland, through South-East Asia some time in 2016. Read on ......