I wrote The Moment on Tuesday the 17th of March 2009. I played with the words for a couple of days, sent it out to three people for some feedback and then finalised it in the form you see below on Thursday 19th March. I have used kayaking as my medium for conveying ‘The Moment’, …
Described as short kilometre, the Gamlan is a trib of the Mawdach, joining that river by public toilet falls, its steep and fast, I watched the boys on their first run down and couldn’t keep up on the bank. Joining them for their second run I broke in, made a draw stroke to line up …
I closed the guide book quickly, sometimes the guide books can be superfluous, this was such an occassion. Stevie looked over asking what the guidebook said, “you don’t want to know” I replied. Daz assured us that it was all good! The entry in the guide book is short, with the initial river description described …
they would probably be like this. With rain forecast for Friday evening and Saturday we hoped there would be water around. I rang the Conwy guage, it was on 1500 about 9pm Friday but by 6 the following morning it was well over 2000…. so it had been raining then! Driving up the 470 towards …
The Grand Canyon of Asia Our journey starts in Leh, the capital of the mountain kingdom of Ladakh, High in the Himalaya. We have flown in from Delhi to the highest commercial airport in the world at around 3000m, our flight delayed by one day due to low cloud in Leh on the Sunday morning, …
Lew firing his big guns after building the ramp for the York River Festival, built with more kicker than last time you get more air time, more time to rotate and more time to get it wrong, there were some bitch slap landings all round. Sam Ellis givin it large Vidal, went for it all …
With rain all weekend and Monday, the texts flew and three of us headed for the waterfall section of the Swale after work. With the rain falling as we drove we had high hopes for good levels, we were not disappointed. I make no apology for the blurry Photos, I’m sorry but thats just the …
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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 …
Sometimes when there’s nothing better to do we go for a ride, it’s dirty job but someone has to do it! A local bridleway goes through a golf course, we interupted the early morning “sport” and demonstrated what you could be doing, instead of spoiling a good walk. Stainburn rocks, in more way than one. …