This time tomorrow we will probably be nearing Milton Keynes on our trek to the Alps, and probably preying the levels will have fallen by the time we get there… woo!
Pic stolen from Adam Do-you-molo.
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What follows is Rob’s article on sea kayaking in Scotland in March… nutter. - Ed.
Easter weekend with nowt to do, spawned a last minute road trip to the Mull of Kintyre for 2 days surfing and some half arsed sea kayaking to camp on an island. I thought it might be a chance to experiment in carrying kit within boats and my flat mate Weener just wanted an excuse to buy an axe. Like a GCSE science report, here’s what I learnt from the experiment?
Surfing in Scotland in March is fookin cold, buy a hood and Gloves before you go. Luckily there is a surf shop in Campletown.
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What with the total lack of recent rain and a desire to paddle regardless, last weekend was an opportunity to head for the North East coast, and the sea caves at Flamborough Head. Continue Reading »
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A few weeks back, I carelessly let my boat slip down a rather steep incline onto some rather hard, sharp rocks. This caused a rather unfortunate “hull breach”:
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Having recently read a very useful “how to” on welding boats, I figured I had better have a bash, as the thought of paddling the Tsarap / Zanskar self-supported in my Crazy88 made me feel a little queezy!
A quick trip down to B&Q and we had the tools we needed - Chisel, Stanley knfe, sandpaper, heavy-duty gloves and, most importantly, a blowtorch. We were slightly bemused by the advice on the torch regarding its potential use as a barbeque lighter… Continue Reading »
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I’ve joined up to this blogging malarkey now to keep a tight reign over the young Mr Jackson. I’ve started revising my web 2.0 speak, so I should be ‘lol’-ing and ‘!!!1!’ -ing in no time. For now I’ll stick to our plans, with an overview for now.
As usual, with any river I plan to do, there’s one person who’s been there first. Mark’s guide has been brilliantly useful in getting our heads around what we’ll need to do to get there and come back in one piece. As long as we can follow it….
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How to start a first blog post? Well, a picture speaks a thousand words and all that. Admittedly, the one above is not mine (it belongs to either Dan, Ben, Hugh or Tom from Cambridge Uni Canoe Club, sorry for the image theft guys…) but it represents everything I both eagerly and apprehensively anticipate about our upcoming India expedition. 16 days, 3,000 metres of altitude and doubtless many mini-adventures await us… but that’s a way off yet.
What I plan to do over the next few months is blog on our planning and build-up to the trip in August. Maybe this blog will be used in future years as an example of how to, or how not to, plan a small-scale paddling expedition. Mainly it will be an excuse for me to wack up a few pictures and tall tales. We shall see.
Owen
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