For some inexplicable reason, and after a soggy month, the weather cleared up for a weekends paddle from Sidmouth to West Bay.
Bad weather chased us east along the coast on Sunday but never caught us up. Rain returned on the drive home.
The Dorset Coast doesn’t get much more benign than this (heading West from Lulworth Cove)
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A meeting or conference for discussion of a topic, especially one in which the participants form an audience and make presentations.
A convivial meeting for drinking, music, and intellectual discussion among the ancient Greeks
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Picked up my spanking new Quest LV on Friday afternoon.
6am Saturday I was off to ‘float my boat’.
I hated the sound of those pebbles crunching against that brilliant white hull as we seal-launched off the beach but at least we didn’t head West down Chesil Beach (pictured), opting for a more interesting ‘around the Bill’ [...]
The forecast was ‘iffy’ for this years ‘Dorset Coast Camp’ – but 5 of us needed the sea air. Paul, Richard, Elliott, Tim and I set off from Swanage in sunshine that Saturday. The intention was to paddle to Lulworth, stopping overnight somewhere on route, and using the morning tidal assistance. Despite an early rise, [...]
An Idea is hatched
I was seduced by photos and tales of sea kayaking amongst the Scottish Islands – sun-kissed white sand beaches, isolated idyllic camps, frolicking seals and otters. An ideal location for a first sea-kayak holiday. I voiced my intention at the annual RCC video night in January and a group of [...]
Bank Holiday weekend and I joined 10 others for a paddle to Lundy. A trip put together by Mark Rainsley (UKRiversguidebook). In Mark’s words the plan …
Friday night…we will journey to North Devon and camp …. presumably we’ll arrive late and leave at the crack of dawn.
On Saturday morning, (29th April) if [...]
My introduction to Sea Kayaking
I’ve no idea why I began to experience a growing interest in long pointy Sea Kayaks – it could have been accounts from others on club sea trips (but these were few and far between), perhaps the photos that Douglas Wilcox posts to UKriversguidebook, maybe the long summers with no surf [...]
