Sea kayaking
navigation, trips, gear, techniques, training
My own countrymen.
Where do you turn to when you need help? Right, to your own countrymen. They will definitely help you out. This is the best advice ever.
The pictures I didn’t take.
Do you have it too? On once-in-a-lifetime-moments you either don’t have a camera or you forget to take a picture? Here is my top 5 of these moments…
Crossing from Stroma to Swona
The sea and currents around the Orkney islands can be very traitorous even if you are a well trained seakayaker. In this post our adventures on the crossing between Stroma and Swona.
All stations, all stations, all stations!
While listening to the weather forecast on the hand-held VHF radio, I imagine what the reader looks like. By just listening to their voices I imagine what they must look like in real life. I want to share my imaginations with you.
Clapotis, what a lovely word is that….
A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned,… for he will be going out on a day he shouldn’t. But we do be afraid of the sea, and we do only be drownded now and again.
As dangerous as a visit to my mother-in-law
‘Are you sane?’ she asks when we tell her we will round the Mull of Kintyre the next day. We are not surprised by the…
Wayfinding; get lost in the art of navigation.
If you can read the ocean, you’ll never be lost. …
Dancing on the swallower
Right in the middle of some of Europe’s most treacherous waters of the Pentland Firth lay the islands of Stroma and its smaller sister Swona.…
Tie up, before you lose time (or boat)
“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- When you step into the unknown,…