Last Saturday a hardy few braved the cold and went down towards Portsmouth. It meant meeting at Cremorne at 8 am, loading up the boats and then whizzing off down the A3 to meet up with Richard B and his mates Sprucey and Peter. Richard had done a fine job of Read more…
I’ve been under the impression that the kids’ weekend drop-in sessions at Cremorne were about kayaking. Well, on Sunday I got my impression corrected. Sure, they kayak (that’s a given when you’re in Harry’s care), but it’s so much more than just kayaking – everything they do contains a lesson. Read more…
Simon Willis is a British journalist who has been doing Podcasting interviews with Sea Kayakers about expeditions, favourite routes and issues of interest at SeaKayakRoutes.com andSeaKayakPodcasts.com since 2006. He popped down for a paddle with Cremorne Riverside recently – check out his blog at: http://simon-willis.blogspot.com/2010/11/sea-kayaking-on-river-thames.html Also download a podcast of Simon’s interview Read more…
An unusual paddle last night, for many reasons. For a start, we had only 4 people for the later paddle, with slightly more than that showing up for the early one. Great that Geoff’s idea is working well. Mind you, already you can see the rivalry emerging between the early Read more…
At the end of August, 10 members of CKC returned from Sweden, after an uplifting week of wild camping and paddling the Bohuslän archipelago, a group of islands dotted along the West Coast of Sweden. These days, the area is full of yachters, motorboaters and others with holiday homes who Read more…
1. Learning about birds (Hey, what’s that bird? A cormorant. Ah, right. And that one over there? Hmm, I’m going to go with ‘a bird’.) 2. Great company* 3. Houses of Parliament glowing pinkish-gold in the setting sun 4. Wildlife at it’s best – ringside seats to a cormorant tussling Read more…
Saturday 10th July 2010 What do pensioners, pre-teens, cardboard and the Thames have in common? If you’d asked me a week ago I would have been stumped. But last Saturday it became clear: cardboard canoe racing. Saturday 10 July saw Cremorne Riverside hold its first ever cardboard canoe competition, attracting Read more…
2nd – 9th May 2010 Ok – this was not my first sea symposium, not by a long way. I’ve been at three in Ireland, back in the early days: Connemara, Donegal and Ballycastle. All good fun, but the nearest thing we got to foreigners was having Nigel Foster give Read more…
Some of Cremorne’s Over 60’s Kayak Group, took part last weekend in the London Kayakathon. With a combined age of 136 years, and only 2 years paddling experience, “The Chelsea Coffin Dodgers” paddled 26.2 miles in a double sea kayak and raised over £1000 for charity. Moya and Daisy – you show Read more…
Thursday 29th April 2010 Our smallest group yet – Phil, Andy, Tim and guest Judy Armstrong, all the way from Stellenbosch, South Africa, via Southfields. Pleasant weather and a strong ebb tide saw us go up river. The idea was to take it fairly easy but seemingly little effort saw us Read more…