…there we were, having a chocolate break, chatting about how amazing it was to see hundreds of porpoises continually surfacing around us…when 9000 kilos of Minke Whale surfaced, full length, directly in front of us. Which was nice. Actually the fellow in the picture above was not the same whale; this is another fellow whom [...]
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Furthest North 2 comments
Not a great photo, is it? It needs some explanation. It was taken with a big zoom lens from the island of North Ronaldsay at the very northern tip of the Orkney Islands last summer, after Heather and I had spent several weeks kayaking there from the Scottish mainland. The hazy outline in the photo [...]
Shoulders of Giants 2 comments
I’m glad to say that I’m not completely working in the dark on ‘South West Sea Kayaking’. Two books have already been written for the publisher along the same lines, ‘Scottish Sea Kayaking’ and ‘Welsh Sea Kayaking’. Consulting them for inspiration has saved my sanity on more than one occasion! The third of Pesda’s British [...]
