Monthly Archives: June, 2009
Craggy Upland
I had to recover my GPS and camera from number one son who was away for a month geological mapping in the Lake District. Kim being a great fan of the Lake District hills suggested we do Haystacks and meet Stuart, but I wanted to go wild swimming at Black Moss Pot so looked at [...]
Victor Hotel Foxtrot
Although I had an aviation RT licence for the radio for my plane, I didn’t have one for my handheld VHF waterproof marine radio for sailing and kayaking and the aviation licence didn’t cover it so it was time to go on a course in a North Berwick church. I parked in North Berwick and [...]
Da Doo Doo Iran Iran
News stories tend to drift across us in a ‘who cares’ sort of way – the Berlin Wall didn’t because it was such a seachange that it was obviously going to change the world and it was great to see attractive women dancing on the wall. What is happening in Iran just now, in the [...]
Away Day Tae Colonsay
The plans were set when the weather was stunningly marvellous and the forecast was brilliant, fly to Colonsay and have a BBQ on the beach and fly back. Waking in the morning a cursory glance at the met forecast told a very different story – gusting 30 knots forecast for Islay (near Colonsay) and even [...]
Assynt
Our Orkney flight was cancelled due to weather, low cloud, so we all decided to go hill walking in Assynt and I would build my kayak up and paddle to the Summer Isles.
B&B in Ullapool and welcoming pints to celebrate not being killed by the deer running across the dusk painted roads, we parted the [...]
Kayaking and Canoeing
After Gordon Browns course on Skye and the Berwickshire Canoe Club pool sessions in Kelso and Ollie Jay’s adventure around Lindisfarne – I was desperate for more opportunities and found the Berwick Kayak Club based in Eyemouth.
With Ali learning to drive this was a good chance for both of us to go along to the [...]
Wind out of our sails
We awoke surrounded by yachts all numbered with guys peeing off the back of their boats and the smell of bcaon drifting across the water. We headed off looking forward to our sail back and had some wind and tacked through a narrow gap between two islands to a snall bay with turqiouse water and [...]
Wonderfalls
The boys of the Sandy Lee had a long sail planned north up to the Krka National Park – famous for its waterfalls. This took us up through a shipping channel and through a fort protected river entrance into the National Park with gorgeous sedimentary layers in cliffs. We weren’t too sure if we were [...]
No More Games
Waking early as we needed breakfast and supplies – mostly fresh bread as Fanny and Johnny in the kitchen had been running a conveyor belt of sandwiches out and empty plates back since day one and our provisions were running low (not to mention the Gin)
I headed out and found the great ice cream shop [...]
Milna! Milna! Milna!
Another beautiful day, another beautiful hangover. Still full from last nights dinner and gin I skipped brekkies and we set off intending to reach Milna for the evening to watch the EUFA cup semi final match between Man Utd and Arsenal.
It was a long and lonely sea journey so we took the chance to empty [...]
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