Tagged: Kayaking

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Sea Kayaking in the Sankt Anna Archipelago: Aspöja and the Central Islands

Day 4 This would be our final full day in the Sankt Anna Archipelago, so after a chilled breakfast we packed up, left the cabin behind us and wandered across to our kayak, where we replenished our fresh water supplies and slipped back into the calm waters. The wind had dropped off even more now,...

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Sea Kayaking in the Sankt Anna Archipelago: Missjö to Aspöja

Day 2 It was still windy in the morning, so we had a relaxed breakfast, packed up camp and were ready to start paddling by around 9am. Rather than head south-west across more open water towards Harstena, we adjusted our plans and decided to head slowly north, taking shelter where we could from the wind...

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Sea Kayaking in the Sankt Anna Archipelago

After a long trip to the Sankt Anna Archipelago on the south-east coast of Sweden, we finally rocked up at the Kajak Paradisetheadquarters and collected our kit. We had booked a large double kayak and camping kit for four nights and five days and were soon sitting on the grass with one of the girls...

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Norway Trip Part 3 – Sea Kayaking in the Fjords

Our train trip across Norway took a bit of a detour here. Rather than continuing on the train from Voss to Myrdal we were missing a bit out and heading north a little to the village of Gudvangen at the end of the Nærøyfjord. Here we would meet up with a kayaking group tour that...

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A New River – The Upper Wye

Sunday was the last of the Aber Kayakers winter ‘White-Water Development’ day trips. There was at least some water in the rivers this time but only a few of us were available to paddle. Ro, Callum, John and myself therefore met in Aberystwyth and headed out to a new river for me, the Upper Wye....

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Aber Kayakers – Carry on up the Dyfi

Apparently there wasn’t any water in the rivers at the weekend. So, rather than cancel the planned whitewater development day with Aber kayakers I suggested a trip up the Dyfi Estuary instead. The weather was after all forecast to be glorious and the tides were perfect. Sunny Skies Sunday did indeed dawn still and sunny....

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A Day at Llandysul

I’m not quite brave enough to use my new Insta360 X3 camera whilst white-water kayaking yet. It doesn’t feel quite as robust as my old GoPro, it’s new, it’s expensive and the lenses look quite vulnerable. The main reason is the fact that I spend far too much time upside down, swimming and generally doing...

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Kayaking The River Dee

Before the offer to paddle the Ystwyth with Joe and Imi on Friday, I’d put my name down to help out in North Wales. Chris Brain, an instructor was assessing someone for a kayak leader qualification and needed some guinea pigs to be ‘led’. I seemed to fit the bill. I’m a relative newbie that...

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Paddling on the Ystwyth

Thanks to a busy week at work last week, I’d done all of my hours and more by Thursday evening, so had Friday to myself. Joe from the kayak club has posted to say he wanted to paddle the Ystwyth and asked if anyone wanted to join him. Imogen had said she’d go with him...

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Aber Kayakers Lake District Trip

Having now kayaked on 3 different rivers in my life (the Dee at Mile End Mill, the lower Tryweryn and the Teifi at Llandysul) I was beginning to feel like an actual kayaker. Time therefore to join the Aber Kayakers on a trip to the Lake District to paddle 4 more rivers. Doing so would...