Hi, my name is Eoin. Welcome to my kayak diary! I’ve been around boats and the sea throughout my life; sailing with my father, scuba diving and, since 2016, sea-kayaking. I love…
This was the most spectacular trip I’ve been on so far (ever)! Rounding Downpatrick Head and the Dún Briste sea stack was awesome! Looking at photos or footage of sea kayakers out…
Xmas party on Lough Gill! This was a nice trip and good fun at times 🙂 Dave G. and I drove up to Hazelwood to meet about 16 other kayakers and we…
Dave G., his brother Leslie and daughter Emma and I went for a leisurely paddle around the southern part of Lough Carra today. I was also wearing my new (second-hand) goretex drysuit…
Myself and Tom went for a paddle around part of Lough Carra today. It was really good of Tom – I think he suggested it more to help me out than anything…
My first sea-kayak trip with a group since moving to Mayo! It was great to get out on the sea again 🙂 It was another overcast day, but that didn’t matter. We…
Lough Conn is a much bigger lake than Lough Gill, where I was on my previous trip. It’s not as appealing as Lough Gill either, as the lakeshore seemed uniformly less wild…
Went on a group trip with Dave Glasgow and around 8 others at Lough Gill today. It’s a really beautiful place. The lakeshore has some stretches that are completely wild, with decades…
Today was my first ever kayak trip on the Atlantic Ocean! My west-coast kayaking career has begun! By Atlantic standards it was totally benign, but it was great. So quiet and still…
Maybe my last ECSKC trip this year… It was a nice one and great to go from Skerries, which I’d never done before. I’ve gone once from Loughshinny, so I recognised a…
Today I was putting into practice some information and training I received at the ISKA Symposium last weekend. It went very well and I now want to document my progress up to…