River Spey

The long forecast storm arrived, so we decided to head over to the East and paddle down the River Spey. This had been in our sights for a while, but a double sea kayak is an unusual thing to use!

We started at Kingussie, where there's a nice launch spot under the B970 bridge. We camped out a few miles downstream, then, with heavy rain on the way spent a couple of nights in the nice Old Bridge Inn bunkhouse at Aviemore. Easy kayak launching immediately outside.

Downstream of Aviemore, the Salmon fishing intrastructure gets ever more prominent, and it became quite hard to find somewhere to  wildcamp.  We were prospecting a rather scraggy spot when a kind fisherman showed us an idillic secret spot on one of the islands in the middle of the river.

Not saying where it is..... You'll just have to find it for yourselves!