Wednesday 29 December 2010

Morning sunrise

A beautiful morning sunrise over our village a couple of days ago
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Getting in the mood ( photos google images)

 Sculptured coastline

 Incredible Beaches

Scottish Wildlife 
Looking forward to heading up to the sea kayaking mecca of the world NW Scotland stunning wildlife, beaches and coastline. 

Tuesday 28 December 2010

New Year

Just like to wish everybody a fantastic new year and many days of fantastic sea kayaking.
Every success to all those with up and coming expeditions near and to far flung places around the world. My training is coming along with many hours of paddling, running and circuit training, this will be built up over the coming months.
I'm hoping to get up to NW Scotland at least one long weekend a month to train and the rest of my training will be carried out on the NE coast of England.
I will keep you all posted on the blog of where I will be and any body fancying a paddle is more than welcome to join in.
keep paddling  Chris  
 

Wednesday 22 December 2010

Scottish Islands Information

A great reference book for information on Islands around Scotland. Info includes. Owners, population, geology, history. A great read
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Monday 20 December 2010

Bmycharity.com fundraising page: Chris Seals - Online fundraising - Help for Heroes

Bmycharity.com fundraising page: Chris Seals - Online fundraising - Help for Heroes

Reflection

As the year draws to a close and while i'm organising next years expedition its worth while to reflect on the year gone "ever so quick if I may add".
I've been very lucky this year to spend around six weeks sea kayaking on the coast of NW Scotland, spending a large part of that time on the beautiful Isle of Skye exploring the coastline, beaches and the most welcoming people I've had the pleasure to meet.
Helping me hone my skills this year were Gordon Brown of http://www.skyakadventures.com/ and Roland Woollven of http://www.rwoollven.co.uk/ both world class sea kayak coaches, I've learnt vast amounts spending time with them and would like to say thank you. if your up on Skye I recommend you give them a shout or if your paddling around Oban Rolands area.

Standard Horizon HX851 floating VHF hand set

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Sunday 19 December 2010

Technical Kit

I have just purchased a standard horizon hand held VHF radio, with capability of DSC which also displays your latitude and longditude which can be rather helpful for your exact position, a very good aid when everythings gone wrong press the distress button hopefully the coastguard will pick up your lat and long,
max 6w and line of sight

View part of loch dunvegan

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Saturday 18 December 2010

The beach at Ord Skye

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Thoughts

This adventure will be a spiritual journey for me, but also sparing a thought for all the service men and women that are returning to the UK with some horrific wounds and having to rebuild their lives.

So this expedition is two fold, the expedition its self, and I would like to raise as much money as I could for Help 4 Heroes so we can help give something back. visit my web site to donate http://www.soloadventure.co.uk/

yours in paddling
Chris 

Setting the route and camp sites

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Reach Out

To all viewing this blog could you pass it on to as many people as possible thank you
Chris

Some where off Oban

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Training

Looking forward to some good training paddles in the coming months
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My Web Site

Please visit my web site that will be updated with training pics and daily added blog and pictures as the expedition unfolds. Live from some where around Skye.
http://www.soloadventure.co.uk/

Friday 17 December 2010

Training

Monday 20th December out for an all day paddle, weather dependent dodging the snow showers wrap up warm.

2011 Expedition

In May 2011 I will be setting off from the small beach at Armadale on Skye in my sea kayak on a solo circumnavigation of Skye.
Follow the build up training and the expedition here live as it happens, regular updates on the move.