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The Slightly Imperfect Paddling Club
We’ve been a bit out of our paddling routine lately, what with Easter visitors and some poor weather to boot. We were, however, back at the pool on Friday for the last session of the year, and then...
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Fake plastic seas
As much as I’d like to post about numerous exciting paddling trips since I last blogged, I’m afraid such trips have been a little thin on the, er, water due to my succumbing to a cold bug which I have...
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Some background info, courtesy of the RSPB: “Developers are planning to build a huge coal-fired power station at Hunterston in North Ayrshire. If built, this would have a devastating impact on one of...
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Summertime, and the living is … busy
I think it might be a Scottish phenomenon but, when the weather improves, suddenly life gets very busy. What should be the lazy days of summer are filled with a mad compulsion to get out and make the...
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Moving goalposts (and pushing envelopes)
The summer days of July have well and truly arrived here on the west coast of Scotland. How do I know? The calendar says so. The schools are all on holiday. It’s blowing a gale and raining...
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Familiarity breeds content
While the rest of the northern hemisphere basks in summer sunshine, we have been soaking up all the rain, wind and cool temperatures that only Scotland can provide in July. Theoretically this might...
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The kayak chronicles
It has come to my attention that, at an average of 2 excursions on the water per week, my backlog of potential blog posts is growing at an alarming rate. The only way to fully catch up would be to stop...
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Back on home waters
During our last trip, before leaving from Ballachulish, I noticed that Lewis had dug some laminated maps of our paddling area out of a folder labelled “Local Paddles”. This made me consider the...
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Times like these
Yes, there’s been a bit of a hiatus in blog posts. I do apologise. But fear not, we have been out on the water, despite adversity, enjoying mostly calm yet chilly conditions. Kilcreggan to Greenock We...
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Wind
I remember a good few years back, there was a movie called “Wind”. The film was not about gastro-intestinal issues, however, it was all about sailing (some Americas Cup thingy). If the past few weeks...
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