Just a reminder that the club boats and trailer will not be available on Wednesday 8th September which is also the last Wednesday session of the season.
The NACC white water training weekend will be Friday 5th Nov to Sunday 7th Nov in Brecon. The total cost for weekend is £60. This includes 2 night accommodation, food and all white water coaching*.
A couple of weekends ago, I had a really good day at Cardiff's new white water course. I would definitely recommend it to any improving white water paddlers. I'll certainly be going again in the summer!
7am on a Sunday is a time that I rarely see. However, Ralph had mustered a seakayaking trip, meeting at Seamills ready to paddle at for 7:30am. As a newcomer to seakayaking and a stranger to the locale around Seamills I met up with Wayne at around 7:10. An interesting little journey followed, wriggling through the outskirts of Bristol to meetup underneath the road bridge close to the river Trym which joins the Avon as it makes its way up to Avonmouth.
In August, I went on my first sea kayaking trip. I was looking forward to the expedition nature of it and to a good day's exercise, but what I wasn't expecting was the exhilarating nature of the paddle!
As we were packing our boats, I learnt that due to the volume of these boats and being designed to be paddled fully loaded, sea kayakers do day trips in luxury! I clearly didn't have enough 'stuff'!
Being of sound mind..... or something like that, I booked on the open canoe beginners course on the white water weekend.
After the compulsory purchase of a thermal rash vest and the borrowing of a decent kag from Steph (thanks!), I was as ready as I was ever going to be. With Nigel leading, Richard, Brian and I got in from a muddy (did I mention it had rained a lot?) Sennybridge field.
Like several others Amanda and I took a trip through the Great Glen by canoe this summer. And... like the others I have yet to find time to write a decent article. But I have select a few pictures of the trip that you might be interested in.
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