The south Devon coast between Start Point and Prawle Point is characterised by wave-cut platforms. These are basically bedrock reefs formed when wave action (over millennia) scours the cliffs away, leaving only the base layer of rock, just above the sea level. The platforms are dissected by numerous channels which just beg to be explored by paddlers!
The fellow in the yellow kayak is my good friend Chris Wheeler, with whom I’ve paddled regularly for at least ten years. Most of this has been on foreign white water rivers, in obscure gorges all over the globe. Chris has actually been paddling for over twenty years. Despite this, somehow he hadn’t ever been in a sea kayak up until recent times, claiming that he’d save this sort of boring nonsense for old age retirement(!). A concerted long-term indoctrination campaign eventually won him over, and he is now proud owner of the pictured sea kayak. He has even taken the sport overseas. He is happy to concede that he was wrong about sea kayaking, although I think it’s a safe bet that he won’t ever be buying a Kelly Kettle or growing unkempt facial hair.
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