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 Friday evening pre-expedition warmup paddle. Miranda, Loz and John wended 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 ‘High Street café’ in Swanage on the Saturday morning. As Read more…
Summer’s here. It’s a brilliant bright sunny day and the kayaks are out on the Thames. Six boats departed Kew on the ebbing tide. A short stop in Battersea and Fiona joined the gang, then off again. We headed through Westminster as the tide was almost out. The absence of Read more…
I’m working on the trip list for 2016. I have had a few requests including Norway Fiordland, Marseilles and Greece as well as beginner trips. Is there anything in particular you would like the club to do? If so, please let me know and I’ll see what we can do. Read more…
You might have seen Sarah Outen in the papers – the “British adventurer” and “explorer from Rutland” who spent the past four and a half years travelling over 25,000 miles around the world by rowing boat, cycle and kayak. During that time she cycled across the Gobi desert, paddled along Read more…
05.40 Alarm goes. 05.41 Alarm stops. 05.47 Finally accept that paddling requires body in kayak not in bed and get up. 07.00 Arrive at BBA. And so started Saturday 25 April 2015 as four of us planned a trip from Margate. The group consisted of me, Miranda and Sally led Read more…
Paddling the Ardnamurchan Peninsula and the Small Isles with CKC, June 2014 Kilchoan Five Chelsea Kayak Club paddlers made their way North from London, through beautiful Scottish scenery, to join Geoff and Sandra in Kilchoan. The Argyll scenery is stunning, and Kilchoan is in a particularly beautiful part, nestled Read more…
Bognor Regis Winter Paddle, 24th November 2013 On a beautiful crisp winter morning 5 intrepid CKC members (Neil, Dan, Rob H, Miranda and Jac) headed to the south coast. There was a lovely shingle beach – (not so gently sloping in places) and free easy parking – perfectly selected. Read more…
Done some work on the site. Optimised the google and bing trawling, they were killing us with requests Database optimisation work Upgraded the server, now twice as much memory as before. Done some additional page caching work What does this mean? Hopefully the website will be faster. If you notice Read more…
The skinny middle aged runner we encountered in the carpark of The Ship pub was the first to speak. “Ah someone more mad than me,” he said, having spent 90 minutes jogging in sub zero icy and snowy conditions. He was vacillating between sheer admiration of our chutzpah to circumnavigate Read more…