Trip Reports

Following up on our surf session at Gullane last weekend 11 of us met at 8am on a Sunday morning at the Lost Shore surf resort near Ratho. This was the culmination of talks between David Simpson and Chris Heaney and Lost Shore management. It was a unique opportunity to bring kayaks into an artificial…

David Simpson has arranged for a unique trip to surf the waves at Lost Shore with Chris Heaney. This is unique as many (perhaps even all) of the surf centres don’t allow paddles on their facilities so getting permission has taken a fair bit of dealing by Chris. In the lead up to this session…

13 faces, some old and some new met up at St Aidan’s Dunes, just south of Bamburgh.  Much car-sharing had been arranged and there was plenty of room in the large and highly convenient lay-by. Once kayaks and gear had negotiated not one, but two kissing gates we gathered on the enormous sands to listen…

Planning I discovered the recently opened hostel on Ulva on an afternoon visit in summer 2024, and thought it would be a good place for a big celebration. I had the idea of paddling round Ulva and Gometra in two days with a trip out to Staffa. R|oddy kindly offered his support at the club…

After the whole group had enjoyed a great trip to the Garvellachs on Saturday, we spilt into two groups for Sunday. Sarah leading one group round Seil Island from the campsite at Kayakers Cove (see Lindsays separate report) and Ken leading Mark, Stevie, David, Peter & me at the Falls of Laura. With the flood…

On Sunday the 20th July, Sarah McIvoy led myself, Cathy,Miranda and June around Seil Island. We set off from the Sea Kayakers Cove harbour slip about 10, as Sarah wanted to make sure that there would be enough water for us to kayak under the Clachan ( Atlantic) Bridge. After disentangling ourselves from the spaghetti…

The original plan for the weekend had been for a Saturday paddle round an island from Cuan Sound, either Luing or Seil, then split into two groups for Sunday. One to paddle in Loch Etive from Taynuilt, which could be the get-out for the other group paddling the flood tide at the Falls of Lora,…

Numbers were much depleted and organiser NeilB was not available for this shortened trip-trolleying on to the Sun 27 July evening ferry and back on the Tuesday lunchtime sailing. Lots of great camping on beaches South of the Scalasaig ferry pier. Views to Scarba, Jura and Islay are amazing Used the morning HW to head…

11 of us met in the car park at Milsey bay. Some had travelled through beautiful weather only to find a dense haar starting within a couple of miles from the coast. The wind was lighter than forecast so after brief deliberation we decided to paddle in reduced visibility of about 100m and stay within…

What was originally suggested by Ivor and Jim as a smaller, more intimate trip grew arms, legs and possibly other limbs to finally resolve at 15 paddlers leaving from North Queensferry on Saturday morning. The combination of a tight LW start and increased numbers muddied the waters both metaphorically and literally – especially literally –…