An hour north of Newcastle is the coastal town of Bamburgh, famous for its castle and beaches, 2 k off shore lie the Farne Islands, there can be up to 28 of them depending upon the tidal state. We paddled out to Inner Farne, Knoxes reef and the East and West Wideopens. Leaving the beach …
One of the many side streams adding to the flow of the Conwy flows through the Dolgarrog Gorge, a steep little tributary that would write off a boat on the first of its many drops, so leaving the boats at home, we walked up it. Looking out from the gorge across the Conwy Valley. Another …
With the weather forecasting gales and rain for the weekend we were looking forward to a good few days boating, too much wind and rain on the Friday and huge dump of snow on the Sunday night, Monday morning reduced out boating days to two We did manage to get in the Coe Gorge in lowish …
Daz Clarkson has been paddling for half his life across the globe in all sorts of exoctic locations, including Norway, France, Italy, Switzerland, Morocco, Pakistan, Nepal, Tibet, Canada and Alaska. These days you are just as likely to find him closer to home, now settled in North Wales he can often be found walking into a …
The first rapid and dropping down to the first gorge Few people will even be aware of its existence as they drive by along the A5 past the Conwy Falls cafe, just above the River Conwy but the Fairy Glen is the stuff of myths and legends. Widely regarded as a test piece paddle the …
With Nepal being featured on one of the shiny TV holiday programmes earlier in the year and all the posts on UK Rivers it seems like Nepal was going to open season this year. There’s more to Nepal than the biggest lump of rock on the planet… We land at Kathmandu and are met by …
Things can go wrong very, very quickly on a river. Nearing the end of the run I split the group into two groups of three, the eddies above the Linn are few and far between at this level, I don't want the group arriving as a six, all fighting for for space. I drop down …
Somewhere in the north of England there is a wave or perhaps not. Lyndon’s Mythical wave works at certain high river levels, ones man’s flood is another man’s surf wave.
Val Sesia With precious little in the way of snow in the Alps this winter and a text from tthe Ted I master saying all the snow had long gone we set off to Italy wondering what we were going to paddle, surely it couldn't be lower than last year! Thankfully some rain early in …
by Michelle Wallace. I have been waiting for some words from Michelle to go with these two pictures but so far non have been forthcoming, but hey, I reckon we can work it out for ourselves….go girl!!