Kayaker Tim Taylor is back on the water today taking advantage of calm conditions in Foveaux Strait – while they last.

He was planning to take a rest day after crossing Foveaux Strait from Stewart Island on Tuesday, but has instead decided to push on before the next front blows through later in the week.

Tim Taylor.

'Local fishermen have told him it's flat calm out there today and tomorrow and then the weather's turning sour, so he's now out on the water again,” says Tim's mum, Lyn Taylor.

'The fishermen are watching him because it's a particularly gnarly area.

'He's absolutely had it, so he's only doing two short days to take advantage of the calm waters. Otherwise he's going to be stuck in that Colac Bay.”

Tim's spending the night on a fisherman's boat in Te Wae Wae Bay.

'Stewart Island he says was the hardest kayaking he's ever done, because of the seas, but it was just amazing,” says Lyn.

'He was on a high every night because it was just so amazing. He just loved it, but incredibly big seas, nothing like he's ever been in before in his life.”

The Foveaux Strait crossing was also in big seas, says Lyn.

'The seas were very rough but he just dug it in.

'I asked him if it was dangerous, he said ‘No, but it was big'. It can't have been too windy.”

Tim set out from Tauranga on November 27 intending to be the first person to circum kayak the country in a single voyage.

Having twice crossed Foveaux Strait and rounded Stewart Island, Tim's next challenge is the Fiordland Coast.

Long range forecasts are for 25-30 knot winds Friday, with the wind dying away on Saturday.

Gale force north-westerlies are predicted to return there on Monday before dropping again on Tuesday.