UK canoeing was popularised in 1865 by John MacGregor with his book "1000 Miles in the Rob Roy Canoe". Canoeists pioneered our NW waters, opening up routes like ours, before pleasure yachts arrived. We've been reading the marvellous "Canoe Boys", describing a 1934 trip like ours by 2 young men from Glasgow tennements with amazingly basic gear. Their trip was celebrated a couple of years ago on TV by Simon Willis, whose website we much admire.
We'd arranged a kayak rendezvous with Simon & Liz on the south Morven shore, but they turned back because of a bad forecast & urgent demands from his imminent guide-book, based on their Gigha to Ullapool trip last year: . Got a great view there of a white-tailed sea-eagle, perched in a shoreline tree.
We're now staying at the Ardnamurchan Campsite & Study Centre, run by Trevor Potts, who's done some amazing journeys including kayaking across the Bering Straight & re-enacting Shakeleton's Antartica to South Georgia epic. Time now to pack up & head round the Ardnamurchan Point, which, with beautiful conditions, shouldn't be epic. Trevor's told us some good fishing spots.
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This is the blog for Tom and Anne's kayak journeys, mostly in Scotland, sprinkled with a bit of mountain biking. The blog starts in 2009, when we spent a month kayaking up the NW Scottish coast from Gigha (ie level with Glascow) to Ullapool.
We have both spent most of our careers as engineers, and love exploring wild and remote places in a sustainable way, often brewing our own equipment. On the sea we usually use "Charles" a Feathercraft K2. We also have a canoe. In the earlier posts this was a very sea-worthy home made wooden open canoe. In 2017 we replaced it with a rather lighter Novacraft made from Tuffstuf. We live in Cambridge UK
Contact us via tombragg (at) ntlworld.com
Contact us via tombragg (at) ntlworld.com
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