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Shuttle

When you need a shuttle - who are you going to call? The answer is simple if your in Sound of Arisaig or Ardnamurchan areas - Steve at the Glenuig Inn.
He’s offering a sea kayaker shuttle service which makes the logistics and sheer hassle of doing a long shuttle before and after a trip. We used him on […]

Under the light

A couple of weeks ago now I managed to finally paddle around the most Southern point of the guidebook will cover; Ardnamurchan Point.

We almost made a a circumnavigation of the Ardnamurchan peninsuala during a trip, a long portage or run or cycle would have completed the trip. The ‘point’ for some reason didn’t feel like such […]

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 […]