STEADFAST ISLAND

Believe it or not, I’d wanted to go to the Marshalls ever since I was a little tacker. As a kid I was more interested in looking for seashells than anything else, and it was kind of a fantasy to look at maps of the world. I remember looking at the Marshalls, out in the middle of nowhere in the Pacific. You could tell just by looking on that map that it would be an amazing wilderness.

Fast-forward a few decades and when we first decided to do the Quiksilver Crossing, we had planning meetings in Sydney. I got the charts out and the Marshalls were pretty much the first place I pointed to as somewhere