I’ve been alone for the last few days, as I’m ‘between friends’. Lots of photos of the front of my boat don’t make for great book illustrations, but it’s not a problem as I’ve actually already covered and written up this part of Exmoor’s coast earlier in the year. A bigger concern has been me, [...]
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Match Fit 3 comments
Decisions, decisions … Leave a comment
I’ve just come away from an interview at a school on the Devon/ Cornwall border, having withdrawn from the field whilst apparently leading. In other words, I’ve just turned down a chance of promotion, combined with working several miles from Widemouth Bay. The location was great but the job turned out to not be what I was [...]
Meteorology 101 1 comment
The photo above shows my friend Chris paddling in North Devon, back on the 5th of May. Since that day, every single day has been cold, wet and – biggest problem of all – very windy, here in the South West. Worse still, my weather lodestone Metcheck is predicting that this unsettled weather will continue for [...]
Louisa of Lynmouth 1 comment
Wikipedia knows absolutely everything. So much does Wikipedia know and know well, that it is now entirely redundant to attempt to impart any knowledge at all in your own words. After all, Wikipedia will always know it better and explain it better… ‘At 7:52pm on 12 January 1899, a 1,900 ton three-masted ship Forrest Hall, [...]
Pleasure-dome Leave a comment
But oh ! that deep romantic chasm which slanted Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover ! A savage place ! as holy and enchanted As e’er beneath a waning moon was haunted By woman wailing for her demon-lover ! Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan Whilst Coleridge was first writing down the words of [...]
Valley of Rocks Leave a comment
After our glorious day of paddling along Devon’s Exmoor coast, we woke up to strengthening winds and choppy seas. As the tide was against us, we spent the morning walking the cliffs and seeking out a rather pleasant Sunday roast at a nearby pub. When we did finally launch, it was just for the short [...]
Brobdingnag 3 comments
The high plateau of Exmoor National Park meets the Bristol Channel rather rudely and abruptly, with an average drop-off of around 300 metres down to sea level. Sometimes the height is lost in steeply wooded slopes, sometimes in England’s highest cliffs. The effect down at kayaker’s eye level, is that everything appears to be fairly big. We planned [...]
Experiential Learning Leave a comment
Morte Point is a headland in north Devon, just north of the surf beach at Woolacombe. The name means … well, how good is your French? The Point has a strong tide race and often sees wild weather, kicking up the surrounding reefs. In local lore it is, “the place God made last and the Devil [...]
