Kayaker Tim Taylor's progress on his solo circumkayak of New Zealand is being watched by an international audience from 25 countries.

Follow Tim's progress at www.nzkayaker.com.

Tim's webpage designer Paul Evans at Smoother.co.nz says Tim's track spotting page has received 18,000 hits since he departed Tauranga on November 27.

The page receives about 300 hits a day from 25 different countries.

'It's pretty good,” says Paul.

'I'm guessing some people might be going straight to the SPOT page and they won't be going via the website.”

Tim's tracker was stolen last weekend as he camped in All Day Bay in South Canterbury. Tim paddled on to Dunedin, where he was in the process of obtaining a new tracker when Oamaru police told him they found his old one, and all the other stolen gear.

A 30 year old woman, Oamaru police say 'has quite a criminal history”, is charged with the theft.

Sergeant Peter Muldrew at Oamaru is unable to confirm if the woman gave herself away by turning the tracker on.

It was found with the batteries missing, says Tim.