Archive for May, 2008

The Cape - Part 2

As the sun set, what we had managed to achieve began to sink in. We had done the ‘Cape’. The weather hadn’t been perfect and it certainly had challenged us but we had managed and we all had that pleasant feeling of tiredness mixed with satisfaction.

The sound of surf pounding the beach isn’t the sound you […]

The Cape

 
It was a major ‘tick’ on the remaining ‘to do’ list. The weather window appeared last week and my friends Karen and Andy had a couple of days off as did I. So we went for it and the Cape certainly didn’t disappoint and gave us two challenging days of paddling.

We launched from Balnakeil Bay near Durness […]

Can you hear me?

‘Use it or lose it’ is a very true expression. British Telecom has started a consultation process which might lead to 194 telephone boxes disappearing from the Highlands this year. The number of calls being made from phones on the hit list has dropped by over 50% in the past 3 years due to the continued growth in […]