This is Justine Curgenven. She is one of the best known British sea kayakers and is achieving some spectacular things in her spare time, not least recently paddling around New Zealand’s South Island. To my shame, I can’t recall if I’ve met Justine in the past; however the magazine cutting above is from a Chinese sports [...]
Archive for October 2008
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Good Morning Swanage 4 comments
This morning we headed down early to Swanage, undoubtedly Dorset’s premier east-facing seaside resort*. We were intending to paddle, but for reasons I’ve already forgotten, never actually got on the water. Instead we ended up walking around sightseeing and scrounging breakfast at friends’ houses. Above pic by John Gilmour, trying out my new wide-angle lens. [...]
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St Albans Head. It’s a headland, located a few miles south of my house. I like it.
Same old, same old… 2 comments
Believe it or not, this is Graham’s good side. Today (in fog and then burning sunshine) we paddled our local waters, the Purbeck coast … again. I suppose that I should be getting bored of it by now …
Extra Time 2 comments
Last weekend the heavy autumn rains came, and so we gave up on sea kayaking for another winter; the white water season began! This weekend we assumed that we’d be off to the River Dart again, but the weather Gods are being rather capricious. Confusingly, they’ve now given us a bit more of the fantastic [...]
Guest Appearance … 1 comment
A contribution from Mrs Rainsley … Weeks and weeks ago I promised Mark that I would do some guest posts. I have failed miserably at getting round to it. But it is Friday night, the sun has gone down and it is good to look back on the summer. Long anticipated and finally viewed for [...]
Breaking the Curse of Lundy (4) Leave a comment
All that remained on Sunday morning, was the paddle back to the mainland. The sea and weather conditions were ‘manageable’, with the only obstacles being the occasional porpoise. Over a weekend that was simply perfect in every way, we broke the Curse. We’ll be back.
Breaking the Curse of Lundy (3) 6 comments
Saturday evening, out in the Atlantic. To begin our Lundy Island circumnavigation, we paddled north to the island’s northern point, which we were going to round against the tide. This wasn’t a problem as a series of smooth-walled tunnels offer a short-cut right under the North Light lighthouse to the west coast! Lundy’s west coast [...]
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So there we were, 20 miles offshore, emptying our kayaks onto a 5km long lump of granite and slate sticking up out of the sea; Lundy Island. We managed to blag our gear into the back of a ranger’s Land Rover heading for the island campsite, meaning that we made the 400 foot climb to [...]
