Once we arrive in Caracas the question arises, what to do with the kayak and how to get home? We have two possibilities for this. One is to arrange to pass the kayak to a couple of people who want to do the reverse UKT the next season and we could store the kayak for them and take a sail boat or fly back.

There is another possibility, however. And that's to kayak back. That would be very long though. The UKT is 2550 miles and the return trip is 3300 miles. ?% longer. There are some good reasons to not do the RUKT such as the relative boredom of kayaking so many miles along the same terrain along South America and Central America, the dangers in Colombia and Panama, there will be some large crossings, like the 390 miles from the border of Honduras and Nicaragua to Jamaica. Or the 200 mile crossing from Jamaica to Grand Cayman, or the 167 mile crossing from Grand Cayman to Cuba. Also it could be illegal or dangerous to kayak along the coast of Cuba. And most of all we will have kayaked a lot and may want to just go home. There are definitely some good reasons to do it though. We will hit seven more countries and a British Principality in the Cayman Islands.

We probably won't beat the Hurricane season but who knows we just might be up to see how far we could go before the hurricanes and possibly even avoid them and make it all the way back.