{"id":19460,"date":"2015-06-17T16:28:07","date_gmt":"2015-06-17T15:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/?p=19460"},"modified":"2015-06-16T16:34:52","modified_gmt":"2015-06-16T15:34:52","slug":"stand-up-paddleboarding-from-borth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/06\/stand-up-paddleboarding-from-borth\/","title":{"rendered":"Stand-up-Paddleboarding from Borth"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another lovely summer’s day here and although I have work to do in both the garden<\/a> and the new shed<\/a> I decided that not all sunny days should be spent doing outside chores and opted for some ‘recreation’ instead. After a short 25 mile bike ride I headed into Borth with my Stand-up-Paddleboard<\/a>. I’d packed a picnic and a drink in my camelbak so, put that on and jumped on my SUP and headed out towards the point. It was a little choppier than I had expected as there was a bit of a SW wind. Typical, I had planned to paddle south so would be heading into it and no doubt a NW seabreeze would fill in later so that I’d be heading into a headwind on the way back as well.<\/p>\n

I had my Garmin Fenix 3<\/a> set to open water swim mode. I could set up a paddleboard mode but the swim mode works well enough and it also counts my strokes which is nice to know. I\u00a0didn’t\u00a0have my heart-rate monitor on though as this was supposed to be a recreational activity and not training. I was making good progress though. \u00a0My watch beeps at me every time I complete 100 yards and I was ticking off each 100 yards in a little over 1 minute. It wasn’t long before I was out of sight of Borth and it was just me, the cliffs, the seabirds and the deep blue sea.<\/p>\n

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Ceredigion Coast<\/p><\/div>\n

There were a few large jellyfish around again as well, although I’ve yet to persevere to get a decent photo of them. There were at least three different types, large Barrel Jellyfish, the smaller Moon Jellyfish and the distinctive Compass Jellyfish. Here’s a blurry, murky picture of a Barrel Jellyfish as I passed over the top of it.<\/p>\n

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Jellies<\/p><\/div>\n

Before I knew it I had made my way to Wallog where I decided to haul up onto what was my own private beach for a while. I stopped and ate my lunch. The sun was shining, there was no one around and had I more patience it would have been a lovely spot to just sit and chill. I did so for about 30 seconds but I’m no good at such things so soon jumped up and headed back out to sea ready for the trip back to Borth.<\/p>\n\n\t\t