Another weekend spent at home in Purbeck with the wind ripping along. Indeed, it has barely stopped blowing since last weekend, and looks set to continue.
A few of us went for a paddle around Brownsea Island in Poole Harbour today, but it was a bit of a grind and I’m fairly sure that we made more progress backwards than forwards.
The endless wind has kept me ashore on quite a few occasions lately, making me rather worried that I’m not going to be very fit for Scotland when I set off for my Very Big Trip in three weeks’ time. On the bright side though, I’ve spent most of the weekend (and previous weeks) MTBing, so at least I might be halfway fit for Something Big that I’m trying next weekend.
Amazing picture – you feel like you are standing on the shoreline just looking at it! Your big trip sounds very ambitious. I never have done sea kayaking but follow many blogs about it. Some day it will happen.
Good luck with the MTB – SDW should be a good route to do! I’m just dusting off my MTB as I’m down your way with group of sudents on DofE Final Expedition in the Purbecks Fri/Sat. Thought I might use the MTB to nip between checkpoints!
The SDW was great fun, in a masochistic sort of way – 101 miles and 4000m of ascent with a couple of rough bivvys along the trail. I’ve done it before, but the bad weather made it rather more gruelling this time …
Cheers,
Mark
Glad to hear it was fun! We struck gold for DofE with 2 lovely days and the wind and wet hitting Fri night once kids had pitched camp.
Had a ball MTB around the area – lovely. Just very difficult to be on the ridge up from Old Harry Rocks and seeing the sea so close yet no Sea Kayak