HCC RNLI Exercise
RNLI exercise with Helensburgh Lifeboat. Photos say it all... 6.5 nm 5 hours (Mostly sitting around) GPS track...
Helensburgh to Kilcreggan and return – HCC peer paddle
Peer paddle trip from Helensburgh out to Kilcreggan and return. Paddlers were Finn, Gordon, Geoff, Martin and me. It was slow going from the off... Weather was great with sunshine and flat calm seas. Stopped for a leg stretch at Kilcreggan, where both Finn and I raided the cafe for coffees and cakes. It...
Whitby Scatterings
With the first anniversary of my wife’s mother’s passing approaching, my wife felt it was time to scatter her mum’s ashes, along with those of her stepdad, "Six-Foot-Ten Ken." They had both loved Whitby, so we decided to hold the scattering at sea, just outside the harbour. The plan was for my wife to...
Shanklin Sandown jaberland piddle paddle
The sea was pretty rough and the sky overcast with rain at times, windy too! Quite a big back eddy had formed which meant I was against the tide coming back, hence why I stuck so close inshore on my return (see my gps track), using the groynes as much as possible to stay...
The Stacks with Ashley and Si
The photos and video captured the day really well Distance 10.5 nm Time: 3.4 hours Paddlers were: Ashley Si and Si What a fab paddle...
Anglesey North Coast with Si
The photos and video captured the day really well. Not including the incident (reported to Canoe Wales - say no more) Distance 20 nm Time: 6 hours Paddlers were: Si and Si What a fab paddle...
The Stacks (with a lot of messing about in Penhryn Mawr)
The photos and video captured the day really well Distance 11.5 nm Time: 6 hours Paddlers were: Andy Ian Si and Si What a fab paddle...
Rhoscolyn
The photos and video captured the day really well Distance: 9.2 Nm Time: 4h 41m Paddles: Ali Andy Bill Ian Si and Si. What a fab paddle...
The Ormes
The first paddle on the sea of 2024 and it's been a while in coming. What with the weather being dominated by low pressure systems for much of the later part of 2023, I have not been on the sea in ages. With light winds forecast for once, I decided to get up early,...
An Aborted Anglesey Circumnavigation Attempt
This year, every time I've planned for a date to do the Anglesey circumnavigation, something would happen; mainly the weather ie. far too windy, or family stuff would clash. All the dates I had planned for this year just came and went. This year hasn't exactly been great for me getting to the coast...
Mull
A Mull non-circumnavigation. The Si's trip to Mull to circumnavigate Mull by sea kayak, cut short by appalling weather and other unlikely events. After a long spell of fine weather, you may ask why were we going now? Well it's all to do with holidays of one "Si", the OT and the OTM, read...
Surprise Skerries
We were only supposed to go to Middle Mouse, but conditions were so fab we ended up doing the Skerries! Brill day and a great end to a long weekend!...
Silver Bay Stacks foggy
Paddling in a sauna! Fab day! ...
Cemlyn Bay into the wind and swell to Camaes, then around Carmel Head – Roller Coaster Sea!
The wind forecast was for a moderate Easterly breeze. For some crazy reason, we decided to head up to the north coast to see how far we could go into the wind from Cemlyn Bay. The flood tide was due to start around 09:40, so we were going to be in wind over tide...
Stacks Trearddur
Liverpool Tides for 09/06/2023 BST M 03:27 8.67 HW 10:29 1.75 LW 16:01 8.05 HW 22:50 2.35 LW Penrhyn Mawr (PM) floods about 3:30 hours after HW Liverpool. Consequently, it was already flooding from about 07:00 (03:27 +03:30 = 06:57). As we were setting off from Porth-y-Post at 09:15, well, it would be rude...
Menai Straits
The weather forecast for Wednesday was not at all good. Si and I went and took a look at Trearddur Bay and we were not impressed. Very windy, Rain showers, big seas and flat broken waves. Fine if you fancy being bongo'd sideways constantly, but neither of us did. So we chatted to the...
Bull Bay to Camaes
Meeting on a Tuesday for a change, Si and I decided to paddle the North Coast. We love paddling the North Coast of Anglesey, as there is always something to see. Not to mention the large tidal movements you experience along this stretch of coast. High Water (HW) would be at 11:16 am Liverpool,...
Trearddur Bay
Sunday, the weather was not looking too promising. The forecast stated conditions would deteriorate with strong winds increasing throughout the day. So, after a hearty breakfast in the Paddlers, we decided to head for Trearddur Bay. Initially, we talked about heading around the coast towards Rhoscolyn, but soon after setting off from the beach,...
Stacks Again
Saturday morning, I met up with Si, Keith and Ashley for breakfast in a little cafe at Valley. The reason for having breakfast here instead of in the Paddlers, was that Anglesey Outdoors and especially the Paddlers was heaving! If we'd had gone to the Paddlers, we would have been waiting for a very...
The Stacks (against the tide)
I hate cold and wet, especially when you feel like you have just woken up and feel all warm. In fact, I had overslept and was still trying to wake up! The last thing you want (or need) is to get cold and wet. But we had decided to do a skills session at...
