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Archive for November, 2007

Brown & Slinky

Can you spot it?

Year on year, I’m seeing more and more otters when I’m afloat. Either I’m getting better looking for them or their numbers are increasing. I suspect it’s bit of both.
However the biggest threat to the continued growth in otter numbers is them being struck by vehicles whilst they cross roads, especially at […]

Canoe Boys

This was the front page of the BBC website this morning. The first time sea kayaks have appeared on it?
The photo was taken earlier this year whilst I was carrying out some ‘on water research’ for the guidebook with Simon and Liz in Loch Modiart on the Northern side of Ardnamurchan Peninsula.
The full story about […]

Big boats & little kayaks

The sea area know as the ‘Minch’ seperates the Outer Hebrides from the Northwest Highlands and is used a sneaky ’short cut’ for large vessels transiting around the West Coast of Scotland, especially in rough weather.
So sea kayaker’s making the crossing of the Minch from Skye to Harris can expect to find vessels like the […]

R.I.P.

I read tonight in the Caithness Courier newspaper that a Fin Whale was washed up dead close to Stoer Point, near Lochinver earlier this week.
The fin whale is the second largest whale after the mighty Blue Whale and the adult female washed at Stoer was estimated to weigh in at 45 tonnes and measured 65 […]


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I'm currently writing a sea kayaking guidebook for the Northwest Highlands; Cape Wrath to Ardnamurchan Point including Skye & the Small Isles. This blog will keep you updated as to my progress and hopefully the blog and in turn the book will inspire you experience the Northwest Highlands by sea kayak yourself.

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