Posts Tagged ‘adventure’
Drive-thru nature
What kind of traveller are you? One that stays in your comfortzone or one that ventures out?
Read MoreJennie, a wreck in a cave
Partly due to the weather the light is already dimming out. We had an early start and some rest on the southwestern tip of Arisaig. But then late in the afternoon, we started a long crossing in some formidable waves and a strong wind. Now we move along the lee side of Isle of Eigg…
Read MoreThe zombie apocalypse.
Have you ever thought about what to do when zombies take over the world? Neither did I until I met James on a beach in Arisaig. We land our kayaks on that lovely beach on a glorious day, fully expecting not to have this gorgeous beach for our own. It is relatively close to the…
Read MoreHow to kill a fish.
How to kill a fish swiftly with your own two hands and my thought about killing the fish.
Read MoreThe man with bad make up.
A meeting with the most tattooed senior citizen on a remote beach on Skye Scotland.
Read MoreFAQ’s on hygiene, lowering my standards
How to cope with with persenol hygiene while kayaking for 5 weeks and having no showers
Read More‘Do you know where the shipwreck is?’
A story about a little girl with a big imagination on a quest to find the shipwreck of the SS Politician after hearing the story in the pub.
Read MoreClimbing Ben Nevis
O noooo, wind force 8 predicted…and I am in a kayak on Cape Wrath!!! We must escape before the storm hits the coast! Early in the morning we get in the boats and sneak off to Durness just before the storm. With still a week of holiday left, we travel down to Fort William to…
Read MoreAs 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 question, ‘Is that not dangerous?’ It is regularly asked when we arrive somewhere with our kayaks. People and especially my mother-in-law, think that we risk our lives when we go…
Read MoreThe love boat
A ship is always safe at the shore, but that is not what it’s built for. — Albert Einstein or John A. Shedd. I always tell my kayaking students, jokingly, ‘the best thing about this sport is that it allows me to yell and scream at my spouse’. And it is true, a rough sea…
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