Gabriele Steindl: Professional Kitesurfer & Freelance Writer - Action, Lifestyle & Travels
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REMOTE BOAT EXPLORER MISSION
Woooooohoooooooo, I’m only just back from a wild boat explorer mission off the coast of WA. Big sharks, sketchy kiting, gnarly waves, legendary fishing…. It’s been a crazy adventure to say the least 🙂 Right now, I’m working on the text to my articles about the trip and of course the photo selection. It’s going […]
YIN & YANG OF LIFE
Sooooooooo many apologies for the long absence from my blog !!! I hope you all had lovely Christmas and an amazing ride into 2021 🙂 I had a pretty different start to the new year with a massive health scare…. yep, in fact, I spent New Year’s in the emergency department of Busselton hospital, here […]
My 2021 Quiver
💥 Luckiest girl in the world 🙌💫 I’m on cloud 9 ⛅ … in kite heaven, my heart is racing, my froth levels are peaking 😝 !!! The postie just dropped this off for me: my new 2021 Duotone Kiteboarding toys, finally here with me in West Oz 🇦🇺 . In my quiver for 2021: […]
How Kiteboarding changed my Life
🔥 Hot off the press! 🔥 Super stoked with this beautiful feature in the latest issue of The Kite Mag! I wrote this article “How kiting changed my Life” for the REFLECTIONS section of the mag, and I reckon it’s a goodie ☺. The amazing photos of this six page spread are by my photo […]
Desert Sabbatical
Yeeeeeeeeeeew, it’s this time of the year: Days and days of packing, looooooooong hours — in fact days — of driving on endlessly straight roads, and finally: our outback paradise. Far away from any civilisation, internet… Just us, our bush camp, the whales, the waves, the stars, the sounds of the ocean, kangaroos, snakes, sharks, […]
My Film: “Wave of Life”
I’m suuuuuuuuuper pleased to present my film People who know me are aware that I gave up everything for kitesurfing almost two decades ago. For the ones who’ve never heard my background story, here’s the short version: Born and bred landlocked in the capital of Austria — Vienna — I had been dreaming of windsurfing, […]
#StayPositive – What’s your “why”?
“I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads. Not knowing where I’m going is what inspires me to travel it.” ~ Rosalia de Castro 👣✨ I reckon most of us don’t know at the moment where the current path through this really strange world will be taking us. But not knowing must […]
HAPPY NEW YEAR !!!
I’m wishing y’all from the bottom of my heart: a very HAPPY and HEALTHY 2020 !!! I hope you had a great ride into the new year and that you’re planning on something exciting in 2020!!! May it be a trip that you’ve always been meaning to take or to learn something new, to change […]
NEW EXPLORER TRIP
I’m currently on a new explorer trip and it’s just E P I C !!! Can’t really spill any secrets for now, but what I can share with you at this stage is that the photographer Stephan Kleinlein and myself are hard at work and scoring yeeeeeeeeeew! It’s a magical place, with the happiest, friendliest […]
LIFE OF A GLOBETROTTER
For the ones, who haven’t seen it yet: I got a beautiful, brand-new article in the leading German kite magazine Kiteboarding.eu in which I reveal the lessons I’ve learnt in over two decades of traveling around the world, in tow my quiver bags full of toys to over 80 countries in the world! Most of […]