Anula Jochym

Responsibility: Responsibility: Supervision of travel planning, weather, currents and tides, safety, equipment, and boats

BCU Advance Sea Kayak Leader
BCU Core Coach
ISKGA Coastal Guide Trainee
NOLS Wilderness First Responder
Circumnavigation of Sicily 2020
Sea kayaking and hiking adventure guide

I am an outdoor guide and a coach, living and working in Iceland. I work both on the sea and on land, having paddling as my main focus. I treat sea kayaking as my vocation as well as my passion – being out at the sea drives me every day to be a better paddler, guide, coach and a person, tuned in with the surrounding environment.

For the last couple of years icelandic Westfjords have been my home and my office where I am a full time guide. I lead a spectrum of trips: from one day to multi day kayaking and hiking, exploring the landscape and wildlife of the Hornstrandir Nature Reserve.

I took my first steps in paddling when I was six years old. Since then I have paddled on lakes, rivers and seas in Iceland, Poland, Turkey, Croatia, Sweden, Greenland, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. I am a certified British Canoeing Advance Sea Kayak Leader and I have coached and assisted on sea kayaking symposiums in the UK and Iceland.

During winter 2020, right before the pandemic broke loose, I had the privilege to circumnavigate the biggest island of the Mediterranean Sea – Sicily, becoming the first woman to do this solo.
Anula Jochym