Trip Reports
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Evening Paddle, South Queensferry – Tuesday 14 Aug
Festival themed trip report: Queens Hall Piano and Cello Duo, South Queensferry Quartet: Fiona, Nick, David and Jane. Forecast SW 4-6. Like some Beethoven pieces the waves behind Hawes pier were gentle and melodious. Once out beyond the breakwater it was more like Chopin (apologies) with waves coming from several different directions and the wind…
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Evening Paddle, North Berwick – Tuesday 7 August
Eight of us met on the beach at North Berwick harbour. Katerina held a briefing session before we set off and it was agreed that the conditions (excellent visibility, light breeze and a slight chop) meant that Fidra would be our destination. Katerina, Graham, Catherine, Angus, Paul, John, Fraser and myself set off at 19:00…
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Aberdour, Thursday 2 August
Six of us – (Graham, Mike, Jane, Steve, Angus and I ) assembled in the Silversands car park in the face of forecast wind of F3, gusting F4 , and predicted heavy rain. We found smooth seas, perfect stillness , tide lapping at our feet (HW 19:14, so no long carry), and no sign of…
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Evening paddle Portobello 25 July 2018
Potentially a B/A grade paddle, the sea gods smiled on Graeme, Carol, John, Charles, David, Mary and Ian as they left Portobello beach just after 1900 and headed down the coast past Musselburgh and on towards Prestonpans, meeting a lone SOT as we did so. The slight onshore waves relaxed until a gentle sea state…
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Evening paddle Silverknowes 19 July 2018
It was no secret that there should have been seven of us, but due in some part to elemental geographical confusion only Alan, Ian, Nick and two Davids set off from Silverknowes beach at 1900, heading towards Inchmickery. The WSW breeze and the still-rising tide presented us with something rather more than a flat calm…
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Thursday 5th July Silverknowes
“Easterly 11 knots gusting to 15 knots which means this paddle would be categorized beyond grade A conditions.” That’s what we were promised, and that’s what we got, and a good sized swell and a lot of white horses evident from the beach. 4 hardy souls (Alan, David, Stephen and Jane), ably lead by Andrew…
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1st August 2018 – North Berwick
A typical LSKC outing which started with a beach briefing at Milsey Bay that established the number of cavities of each of the eleven group members. The winner was new paddler Tracy with none. With a forecast for sun, clear skies and a gentle breeze from the east… we set off in to cold, thick,…
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Training Day, Aberdour, Sunday 24th June 2018
Those who came: Katerina (leader/ringmaster), Marysia, Alan, Jan (on her first paddle), Segar, Susan and 2 others who went off to do their own thing (I apologize for forgetting your names) Weather: A scorcher of a day with a light westerly wind leaving the silver sands end of the bay calm but the other end…
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Blackness, Tuesday 19 June, 2018
We seven – Graeme (Organiser), Dave, David, Heike, Fiona, Andrew and I – set off from the beach at Blackness at 1900 (HW about 2030, so a pleasantly short carry). It was a calm evening – the only waves being the waves of sound that pursued us across the water as a resident of Blackness…
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Loch Sween 9th/10th June 2018
Paddling in scottish waters doesn’t get much better than this. My favourite area for outstanding terrestrial and marine wildlife, rare butterflies and interesting archeology. We camped at Leachive campsite in Tayvallich on Friday night with its delightful owner who let us leave our cars on the campsite over the weekend. On Saturday morning we were joined by Elizabeth from…