Kayaking the Amazon from Source to Sea with Darcy Gaechter

Here's Where It Gets Interesting

Sharon McMahon

Government, History, Storytelling, Education

4.9 • 15.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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In this episode, Darcy Gaechter joins Sharon to talk about her incredible whitewater kayaking expeditions. Darcy is the first (and only!) woman who has kayaked the Amazon River from its source to the sea. The journey took 148 days and had plenty of misadventures alongside all of the adventure. Darcy lives in Ecuador and runs a kayak tour business, helping others achieve their dreams of whitewater kayaking along the country’s beautiful, winding rivers. Listen in as Darcy shares how her adventures have been successful through skill, perseverance, and learning the balance between planning ahead and improvising on-the-go.

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0:00.0	Hello friends, welcome. I am absolutely delighted that you're here and that I get to
0:06.9	share the story with you today. I am chatting with Darcy Geckter, who is the first woman to kayak the entire Amazon River from its source in the mountains of Peru
0:20.4	to the Atlantic Ocean in Brazil.
0:23.6	It took over five months of kayaking.
0:28.0	Kayaking like 8 to 10 hours a day.
0:30.4	So I'm not going to give away any more than that, but you will find the story fascinating.
0:35.6	So let's dive in.
0:37.0	I'm Sharon McMahon.
0:39.0	And welcome to the Sharon Says So Podcast.
0:42.0	Darcy, I am so excited to check. Sharon Says So, so, Podcast.
0:45.4	Darcy, I am so excited to chat with you. Thank you for joining me all the way from Ecuador today.
0:49.4	Thanks so much for having me.
0:50.8	I'm excited to chat with you as well. Oh I when I came across your
0:54.5	story I was like I need to speak to this person. I love people that have
1:01.6	unusual jobs, unusual stories, unusual adventures, I love remote places, like it's all the things that I love to talk about so I'm excited to hear more about your story.
1:15.6	For people who don't know who you are,
1:18.1	which I would assume is a lot of people,
1:20.0	tell us more about your book, tell us more about what you do and maybe give us a clue about why we're even chatting today.
1:28.6	All right, yeah, so my name is Darcy Gefter. I bet nobody knows about me, which is okay, I'm very shy and I like to sort of stay under the radar as much as possible. The reason I'm chatting here with you today, I assume is because I'm the first woman to kayak the Amazon River from source to see,
1:46.0	which was a 148 day long journey and 4,300 miles.
1:52.0	And probably you just wanted to see what kind of crazy person would actually
1:59.7	do that. Not crazy. Kind of yes and then you know more challenging for me after the Amazon journey I wrote a book about it and that was much more outside of my wheelhouse in a huge challenge but you know very rewarding and so the book is called Amazon woman and I'm talking to you from Ecuador because I run a
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