Trip Reports
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Escape to the Fife Coast
A break in the torrential rain on Saturday 10 August allowed a dash along the coast from Elie to Anstruther, via lunch at the Smokehouse in St Monans, and a leg stretch in Pittenweem. All 4 harbours showed their prettiest side in the sunshine. Conditions at sea had driven in many colourful fishing boats, and…
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Evening paddle Blackness 24 July 2019
Beautiful evening, glorious sunset, impressive castle, very good company. Thanks to David T for organising.
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Loch Hourn 19-21 July
We launched from Arnisdale at 5pm for an evening paddle after a spectacular drive over Mam Ratagan and identifying a camp spot. After paddling the inner Loch and Caolas Mor narrows up towards Rinuval we explored the very warm waters of Barrisdale Bay and the island at Mhuineil then back with great views of the…
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Grade A- paddle, North Berwick – Sunday 21 July 2019
10 of us met on Sunday morning at Milsey Bay in North Berwick for the July grade A- paddle. The paddlers were Susan, Keith, Joanne, James, Lisa, Debbie, Stephen, Dougie, Richard Leeson and Richard Hope. The forecast was a bit iffy for an A- paddle with force 3 winds and force 4 gusts. However, there…
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Evening Paddle Seacliffe Beach 16th July
If you are going to organise a paddle in the evening then check in with Cathie MacDonald first! Twelve intrepid paddlers arrived including late arrivals in the form of over-worked Andrew R and an exhausted Tim who avoided the traffic by paddling from home in NB. The “plan” was for a lovely circumnavigation of Bass…
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East Neuk – Fife coast Sunday 14 July 2019
This is just a few miles down the coast from St Andrews, north of Anstruther. The trip is in one of Doug Cooper’s books. It starts with sunshine, and a drive through rich farmland with huge fields of poppies. Launching from Kingsbarns Beach car park on the helpful south stream, we travel along the…
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Dunbar wednesday 26th June 2019 “Challenging”
9 of us met at Dunbar Harbour and surveyed the moderate swell and RNLI flag fluttering/flapping straight out from the pole with some trepidation. Probably Lower end of F4 from NE. “Over to you” said Graham ” with your local knowledge” So we cautiously edged out of the harbour and sat in the shelter with…
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Berwickshire coast Saturday 6th July 2019 – bonus feature – now with added dolphins!
3 of us ( Tim Gibson, Chris Gordon-D’Rozario & myself) met saturday morning at Eyemouth. We were going to launch from up river by the dockyard but the jetty here is steep , slippy at low tide & with some steps – so we didn’t . Launching from the beach with the coastal rowers we…
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Harris Tweaked 21-29 June 2019
After David, Lori, Chris and eventually Ian met up at Uig campsite on Friday, our party rose next morning for the latter two to commence some serious resource management (aka faffing) while Lori heroically soloed breakfast in the nearby cafe. Our small but by now well-organised team were the object of some curiosity from American…
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St Abbs and beyond
A great day out in mostly hot sunshine down at Coldingham bay and a rock hopping adventure to St Abbs and beyond. Thankyou Katerina for organising fabulous weather . Alan stated that it was the calmest conditions he had paddled St Abbs. There was a fleet of dive boats out. Alison and Brian knew some…