Thanks to Tim, Richard, Philippa, Philippe & John for a lovely paddle down to Hampton Court in sunny weather. We clocked 22 miles for BC’s Go Canoeing week. Ice creams with dubious coloured sauces were consumed! We got to go Read more…
Paddling the Thames is always interesting during the year. Photo from a happy February paddle with Richard, Philippa, Geors, Janice & Fiona. Now looking forward to warmth and longer hours of daylight! Do join Sat 26 May paddle to Hampton Read more…
CKC AGM Thurs 22 Feb 2018 7pm onwards Upstairs at The Nell of Drury pub, Catherine St, WC2B 5JS. AGENDA Apologies for Absence Matters arising from the previous years minutes Chairpersons Report / Summary of the year Reports from Committee Members Presentation Read more…
We have organised a great opportunity to listen to a incredible international paddler, Freya Hoffmeister… an amazing Woman – on Mon 5th Feb evening, short walk from Turnham Green tube station. Freya’s London talk about the 1st Kayak Circumnavigation of Read more…
Thirteen CKCers had an excellent long weekend on the 14/15/16/17 July at Dartmouth. The trip was significantly helped by members of the Dartmouth canoe club, (more properly the Yacht club as they are a section of that). So we were Read more…
Easter Saturday 15 April 2017 – Alex, Liza, Philippe and Fiona met just east of the Wish Tower in Eastbourne to go around Beachy Head to Cuckmere Haven, then Newhaven and then up through River Ouse to Barcombe Mills– as Read more…
Sat 16/17 August weekend saw the continuation of the paddle from London to Lands End. Alex, Liza and Fiona met to kayak from Margate towards Dover. After dropping (not literally!) kayaks off at Margate, Alex drove his car to Dover Read more…
A grey day was forecast with force 2-3 winds but it turned out to be slightly worse than expected with fog blanketing everything south of Guildford resulting in fairly poor visibility. Liza, Jonathon, Rob and I met at The Inn Read more…
Day 1 Friday 22/07/16 Falls of Lora CKC started the 2016 Western Highlands “Mulvonachoan” expedition at Connel Bridge, just outside Oban, where Alex and Geoff were pitting themselves against the rapids at the Falls of Lora, on Springs, for a Read more…
We started as a group of 8 for this trip and numbers dwindled as the adventure drew near leaving us with a core 4 who made it down the M3 through the wind and the rain to meet at the Read more…