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ARTICLES & TRIP REPORTS

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Ireland

GALWAY - Zoe Newsam's report on a wonderful trip to the islands off Galway, Ireland.

SW IRELAND - an illustrated trip report from NWSK's web site.

SOUTHERN IRELAND - trip reports from "A Novice Sea Kayakers Log Book" for 7 Heads and Old Head of Kinsale.(Illustrated)

HOLYHEAD (in Wales) TO DUN LAOGHAIRE (in Ireland) - trip report by Barry Shaw and Harry Whelan.

 

Elsewhere

WALKING WITH SHARKS - well illusrated report by Chris Scott on paddling in Shark Bay, Western Australia.

COSTA BRAVA - illustrated trip report by Phil Quill.

CASI UNA VUELTA a MENORCA by Phil Quill. Looks like some stunning paddling. Illustrated.

SOUTHWEST COSTA RICA - illustrated report by Rob Gibbert.

FALKLANDS - some pics by John Willacy.

MILOS looks nice! - pics from CSCC member's trip 6/04

BRITTANY - July / August 2004 - report & pics from Mark & Heather Rainsley's trip to Brittany in summer of 2004.

BEHM CANAL in Alaska - July 2004 - trip report by Tim Dawson. (illustrated)

BRITTANY SEPTEMBER 2003 - trip report by Jim Krawiecki. (illustrated)

THE SOUND OF DESOLATION - paddling in British Columbia, August 2003 - trip report by Mark Rainsley. (illustrated)

 

 

Canoe Association of Northern Ireland website - the official Association for Northern Ireland, affiliated to the BCU.

Irish Canoe Union's website - the official Association for Ireland. Affiliated to the International and European Canoe Federations

The Irish Sea Kayaking Association has an informative site and "independently represents sea-kayaking in Ireland".

Multi Map.com will help you find places mentioned.

Planning your first multi-day trip? Mark Rainsley's article "a Special Kind of Freedom" is essential reading.

Broken links? Please email me with details.


Other sites with routes / trip reports

Canoe Focus have a variety of trip reports.

Matty's Tasmanian Aventures is worth a look - nice pics, some good write-ups of trips and a couple of "techy" articles.

SESK's web site has some reports on Oversea trips, as does NWSK's and Bolton Canoe Club's.

Tasmania - hair raising pics & videos.

The Wild Coast contains "kayaking information for the British Columbia coast as drawn from the kayaking experiences of John Kimantas, author of The Wild Coast series of kayaking guidebooks".

PADDLING.NET's photo trip reports - very US orientated but worth a look.

Expedition Database - "Cackle TV are trying to create a comprehensive list of all notable seakayaking expeditions."

Florida's Hidden Coast - Nick & Sandra Crowhurst's free downloadable book about the section of "Florida's Hidden Coast" between Cedar Key in the south and the Aucilla River in the north. They say it's a magical playground for the sea kayaker.

Sweden - Kanotguuiden.com is an excellent database of trip descriptions and maps for Sweden.

Local info

Local Centres & Kayak Hire

Weather & tides

Ireland - Oileain, the Guide to the Irish Islands (in various forms)

Alaskan "public use" cabins.

Great Sea Caves of Antrim - astonishing site with fascinating images from Northern Ireland.

Norway - discussion with a variety of links to useful information and planning sites.

Photography - The Geograph project aims to collect geographically representative photographs and information for every square kilometre of Great Britain and Ireland - there are some useful coastal shots.

The entire coastline of the Irish Republic is now available online with continuous oblique helicopter photography (can be viewed as a slide show). Excellent!


Discussions from the Community Pages

British Columbia

Brittany

Brittany - surfing

Brittany - Southern Brittany

Greece (Milos) - trip planning thoughts. More here

Greece - discussion with some nice pics of Chris Bolton's trip to the Cyclades.

Ireland - Galway area

Ireland - SW - Schull - good pics.

Lofoten - trip planning thoughts - map sources - many useful links

Norway

Norway - with pics.

Norway - Stavanger area - with pics

Nova Scotia - this post has several useful links for where to go and helpful resources.

Sweden - St Anna archipelago - with pics.

(Updated 19-Feb-2010 )