Kayak Diary https://kayakdiary.alluvialplains.com/ Wed, 29 Dec 2021 11:45:10 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 Downpatrick Head, December 27th https://kayakdiary.alluvialplains.com/2021/12/28/downpatrick-head-december-27th/ https://kayakdiary.alluvialplains.com/2021/12/28/downpatrick-head-december-27th/#respond Tue, 28 Dec 2021 21:28:16 +0000 https://kayakdiary.alluvialplains.com/?p=1068 This was the most spectacular trip I’ve been on so far (ever)! Rounding Downpatrick Head and the Dรบn Briste sea stack was awesome! Looking at photos or footage of sea kayakers out…

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]]> https://kayakdiary.alluvialplains.com/2021/12/28/downpatrick-head-december-27th/feed/ 0 Lough Gill, December 19th https://kayakdiary.alluvialplains.com/2021/12/22/lough-gill-december-19th/ https://kayakdiary.alluvialplains.com/2021/12/22/lough-gill-december-19th/#respond Wed, 22 Dec 2021 09:22:00 +0000 https://kayakdiary.alluvialplains.com/?p=1048 Xmas party on Lough Gill! This was a nice trip and good fun at times ๐Ÿ™‚ Dave G. and I drove up to Hazelwood to meet about 16 other kayakers and we…

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]]> https://kayakdiary.alluvialplains.com/2021/12/22/lough-gill-december-19th/feed/ 0 Lough Carra, December 16th https://kayakdiary.alluvialplains.com/2021/12/17/lough-carra-december-16th/ https://kayakdiary.alluvialplains.com/2021/12/17/lough-carra-december-16th/#respond Fri, 17 Dec 2021 09:52:02 +0000 https://kayakdiary.alluvialplains.com/?p=1024 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…

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]]> https://kayakdiary.alluvialplains.com/2021/12/17/lough-carra-december-16th/feed/ 0 Lough Carra, December 5th https://kayakdiary.alluvialplains.com/2021/12/06/lough-carra-december-5th/ https://kayakdiary.alluvialplains.com/2021/12/06/lough-carra-december-5th/#respond Mon, 06 Dec 2021 18:36:12 +0000 https://kayakdiary.alluvialplains.com/?p=984 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…

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]]> https://kayakdiary.alluvialplains.com/2021/12/06/lough-carra-december-5th/feed/ 0 Clew Bay, November 28th https://kayakdiary.alluvialplains.com/2021/12/05/clew-bay-november-28th/ https://kayakdiary.alluvialplains.com/2021/12/05/clew-bay-november-28th/#respond Sun, 05 Dec 2021 18:16:53 +0000 https://kayakdiary.alluvialplains.com/?p=964 My first sea-kayak trip with a group since moving to Mayo! It was great to get out on the sea again ๐Ÿ™‚ It was another overcast day, but that didn’t matter. We…

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]]> https://kayakdiary.alluvialplains.com/2021/12/05/clew-bay-november-28th/feed/ 0 Lough Conn, November 17th https://kayakdiary.alluvialplains.com/2021/12/05/lough-conn-november-17th/ https://kayakdiary.alluvialplains.com/2021/12/05/lough-conn-november-17th/#respond Sun, 05 Dec 2021 08:14:16 +0000 https://kayakdiary.alluvialplains.com/?p=926 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…

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]]> https://kayakdiary.alluvialplains.com/2021/12/05/lough-conn-november-17th/feed/ 0 Lough Gill, November 14th https://kayakdiary.alluvialplains.com/2021/11/15/lough-gill-november-14th/ https://kayakdiary.alluvialplains.com/2021/11/15/lough-gill-november-14th/#respond Mon, 15 Nov 2021 18:59:00 +0000 https://kayakdiary.alluvialplains.com/?p=901 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…

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]]> https://kayakdiary.alluvialplains.com/2021/11/15/lough-gill-november-14th/feed/ 0 Rosmoney, November 10th https://kayakdiary.alluvialplains.com/2021/11/10/rosmoney-november-10th/ https://kayakdiary.alluvialplains.com/2021/11/10/rosmoney-november-10th/#respond Wed, 10 Nov 2021 20:46:48 +0000 https://kayakdiary.alluvialplains.com/?p=861 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…

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]]> https://kayakdiary.alluvialplains.com/2021/11/10/rosmoney-november-10th/feed/ 0 Skerries, October 9th https://kayakdiary.alluvialplains.com/2021/10/09/skerries-october-9th/ https://kayakdiary.alluvialplains.com/2021/10/09/skerries-october-9th/#respond Sat, 09 Oct 2021 17:14:37 +0000 https://kayakdiary.alluvialplains.com/?p=837 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…

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]]> https://kayakdiary.alluvialplains.com/2021/10/09/skerries-october-9th/feed/ 0 Forward Strokes https://kayakdiary.alluvialplains.com/2021/10/06/forward-strokes/ https://kayakdiary.alluvialplains.com/2021/10/06/forward-strokes/#respond Wed, 06 Oct 2021 20:22:29 +0000 https://kayakdiary.alluvialplains.com/?p=826 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…

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