Friday 28 January 2011

A FEW MORE PICS

My start point for the circumnavigation of Skye Armadale harbor
 
 Tarskavaig  last Saturday
 Saturday paddle in Tarskavaig bay with the Cullins as back drop 
 The clouds rolling through
The Misty Isle

Monday 24 January 2011

360 panorama

Sky on Skye

A Few Pics

Looking back from the bothy

                                                                                Landing
Start of Loch Coruisk


Panorama

Panorama of Elgol harbor with the Cullins in the distance

Sunday 23 January 2011

Cullins

Looking out from Elgol. Good paddle today from Elgol to loch coruisk then to Soay harbor and back to Elgol weathers been great
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Saturday 22 January 2011

The long drive

Just arrived on Skye for a few days paddling calm and still at the moment in Broadford. A long drive through the night. Went to Oban first to collect some bits from sea kayak Oban. Broadford harbor looking out
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Monday 17 January 2011

Training trip to Skye

This coming Friday night plans are in hand, all weather dependent to depart my little yorkshire moors village and head up to Oban then on the Skye for a few days of paddling in this mecca for sea kayaking.

Thursday 13 January 2011

Wednesday 12 January 2011

Help 4 Heroes

As I Prepare for this expedition I would like to spare a thought for all those men and women in the armed forces wounded and killed in action.
Those who are many having to come back and rebuild their lives from debilitating injuries, so to help I have set up this link below to try and raise money that will go some way to help the rebuilding of these men and womens lives.



Please donate at the link below  many thanks


http://www.bmycharity.com/v2/soloadventure

Saturday 8 January 2011

GoPro and spot test

Just popped down to the local river to test out my new GoPro video and still camera results look promising. Its my first time messing with such technology  (any tips Simon). Hope to run a video diary as I do my solo circumnavigation of Skye, the only problem I think will be the upload to the blog site with wifi or mobile dongle. If anybody can give any info on signals around Skye would be of great help. I use a orange mobile dongle I know the east side of Skye orange has some good reception but the west? If all fails back to picture diary
The spot tracker worked fine no problems at all, I will add a link to the blog so everybody can follow  the progress of the expedition
  

Go pro & spot

Just testing the go pro and spot tracker so I can link them to my blog
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Wednesday 5 January 2011

City River Paddle cont'd

 Lendal Bridge
 New Insurance building above
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Old mansion house below (home of the lord mayor)

Even found a little beach



City River Paddle cont'd

 The gateway to the city by river
 You can just make out the famous castle museum
 The Bonding Warehouse
The famous kings arms pub that always floods 

City River Paddle

 Unable to Get to the coast today, but needing a couple of hours paddling I decided to paddle through the ancient town of York as I live just out side. Picture above is at bishopthorpe landing. 
 Just a few hundred metres upstream is the Archbishop of Yorks residence by the river
 Passing some house boats
The Millenium Bridge

Arriving for my city paddle

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Sunday 2 January 2011

Change of activity


Slight change of activity today instead of a sea kayak, I thought I'd better stretch the legs off, so a little womble up one of the yorkshire three peaks "Ingleboro". A clear day as you can see from the view and a tad fresh, all in all a brilliant day had by all
See you all back on the water

Saturday 1 January 2011

New year

Happy new year to all of you. Looking forward to a great years paddling.
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