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ARISAIG to SKYE - Owen Merrick's story of his introduction to sea kayaking. MINGULAY - photo's from Mark Rainsley's Whitsun 2006 trip. LOCH ETIVE - Mark Rainsley's "Paddling Guide" to Loch Etive - illustrated. COLL & STAFFA by Owen Merrick. A nice, laid back trip in Scottish West Coast waters. Illustrated. LOCH TEACUIS - Mike Buckley's badly illustrated trip report of a wet weekend near Ardnamurchan. ISLAY - illustrated trip report from the SCA 2005 Islay tour, by Jeremy Hastings. HEBRIDEAN DIARY - Helen McKenna's illustrated diary of two weeks on North Uist. SOLWAY COAST - Mike Buckley's illustrated report from the 2005 SCA Solway trip near Gatehouse of Fleet. UIST SYMPOSIUM - Andrew Cleland's photo set from the 2005 Symposium. LOCH NEVIS - illustrated trip report by Mike Buckley. SMALL ISLES - illustrated report by Alistair Rose. HEBRIDEAN CHALLENGE - a gruelling five day adventure race - Simon Willis' article includes some great images of the Shiants. ST KILDA - illustrated trip reports from Andy Spink on his 2005 trip, and also the 2004 trip. 7th SCOTTISH SEA KAYAK SYMPOSIUM - illustrated report from the 2005 Symposium on Skye. LUING & BELNAHUA from Oban, illustrated trip report by Helen McKenna. SANDAIGS & LOCH HOURN - illustrated trip report by Helen McKenna. NORTH CHANNEL - Portpatrick to Larne, solo. Illustrated trip report from Barry Shaw. LOCH LEVEN, GLENCOE - illustrated trip report by Helen McKenna. LOCH LOMOND and ROCKCLIFFE, SOLWAY COAST - illustrated short reports by Helen McKenna. LOCH ETIVE - illustrated report of the SCA December 2004 trip, by Mike Buckley. Some pics from the 2005 trip are here. LOCH HOURN - link to a nice site with a trip report on paddling an Open on Loch Hourn, by Ian Bolas. See also the report from Jim Wallace in this discussion. ISLAY and LOCH INDAAL, ISLAY, both by Jeremy Hastings. JURA - pics from BCC's and Tony Page's trips in 2004. WEST COAST OF JURA - report of an Easter expedition to Jura, Corrievreckan and Scarba at Easter 2004, by Mike Buckley. (Illustrated) ANOTHER CONVERT! Simon Willis has discovered the joys of sea-kayaking and tells his story. His site has more trip ideas and pics. THE LONELY SEA AND THE SKYE - Mark & Heather Rainsley took themselves over the sea to Skye in June 2004 - this is Heather's take on the trip, with their photo album. See also the discussion about it. AN INTRODUCTION TO SEA PADDLING - PART 2 - first experience of a weekend camping trip in the Sound of Arisaig, by Helen McKenna. (illustrated) AN INTRODUCTION TO SEA PADDLING - trip report on paddling near Ayr, by Helen McKenna. A DAY OUT IN THE FORTH. A CAUTIONARY TALE - report by Tim Dawson LISMORE - trip report by Mike Buckley & Tim Dawson - two stories of the same trip. EILACH AN NAOIMH VIA THE CORRYVRECKAN - trip report by Tony Page. (illustrated) CIRCUMNAVIGATION OF GIGHA - trip report by Douglas Wilcox. (illustrated) LOCH FYNE - trip report by Jim Wallis. SUMMER ISLES TRIP REPORT - by Jim Wallis. Notes from an Easter 2003 trip. (illustrated) AROUND RAASAY - by Adrian Pullin. Classic Scottish sea kayaking. (illustrated) GREY DOGS AND BLUE SKIES, THE GARVELLACHS - by Mike Buckley. A classic Scottish sea trip. 210 DEGREES TO TOBERMORY - by Andy Evans. A circuit of Mull. A WEEK OUT OF ULLAPOOL - by Paul Cromey. MULL MAGIC - by Paul Cromey.
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Scottish Canoe Association's website. Visit the Touring section for details of SCA trips. Multi Map.com will help you find places mentioned. Ministry of Defense contacts for some of the military exercise areas are to be found in this discussion and this one. The SCA has some useful information about military exercise areas in Scotland -see also this map. Over the next few months the MOD will be installing detailed maps of these areas on their website www.mod.uk but as at 3/2/08 it doesn't appear to be on the site. They have however provided some general information The Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2003 grants some useful Rights & Responsibilities. Please exercise them appropriately. Broken links? Please email me with details. Other sites with routes / trip reports You might also like to look at Graham Burton's superb database project - this allows you to set a range of search's and links to a wide range of trip reports both here on UKSKGB and on a variety of other sites. Simon Willis is developing some excellent photo logs and route descriptions on Sea Kayak Routes.com. He's got some good Podcasts too. Douglas Wilcox also has some superb photography and route ideas on The Scottish Sea Kayaking Photo Gallery and on SeaKayakPhoto.com SESK's web site has some reports on Scottish trips, as does NWSK's. Although not updated for a long time, Swaledale Outdoor Club have some trip reports. Great trip photos from Bolton Canoe Club of Knoydart, Staffa, Hebrides, Jura, Treshnish, Mull and Summer Isles. Expedition Database - "Cackle TV are trying to create a comprehensive list of all notable seakayaking expeditions." "Canoe Boys" - this discussion has lots of info and links to Simon Willis' superb Radio Scotland series about the Canoe Boy's journey on the West Coast. Local info The Isle of Rona website has lots of detail about this unique island. Inland Waterways - details and guides to canals and other inland waters. Click the "Go Boating" link for extra details. See also this link. Loch Lomond & the Trossachs National Park. Falls of Lora - an interesting diversion if you want to play on moving salt water - near Oban. See also this website with tide-times, info and pictures. The Isle of Jura website has a lot of information about the island, including several thousand images The Isle of Rum website. Lots of information about Rum Lonely Isles - lovely site with details of abandoned or sparsely populated Scottish Islands. Hebridean Whale & Dolphin Trust. St Kilda Trip - Slideshow - stunning pics from a supported trip to St Kilda by NESKY. West Word - the Community Paper for the Mallaig area and the Small Isles gives an insight into this part of the West of Scotland. Culture Hebrides - a portal to the Hebrides, "a unique spiritual, civilised culture, the true heartland of the Gaels and the Gaelic language" Corryvreckan - whirlpool-scotland.co.uk has a lot of interesting info and includes a useful page with spring tide dates and the relevant pilot for the Corryvreckan Aerial photographs of Scotland. Discussions from the Community Pages Ailsa Craig - with pics Arisaig - with pics Cape Wrath - includes details of who to contact before paddling in military exercise areas. Colonsay - with a link to superb pics. Corryvreckan - thoughts on crossing - includes a comprehensive post from Jim Wallace detailing suggested times etc. Corryvreckan / Jura - nice pics from BCC's 2006 Easter trip. Cuan Sound - with pics Garvellachs via Grey Dog and Corryvreckan - with pics Gigha - this discussion has links to pics, more here. Harris & North Uist - with superb pics Harris to S.Uist - with yet more superb pics Hebrides / North Uist - with superb pics Islay - has links to superb pics Jura - (Sound of) - incs links to pics. Jura / Corryvreckan - nice pics from BCC's 2006 Easter trip. Knoydart - discussion here, and this discussion has great pics linked in the thread. Kyles of Bute - with pics MacCormaig Islands (Sound of Jura) - with pics. Mingulay - with pics Mull - places to camp or stay on the island Mull - with pics Mull - with pics, including a rather splendid shot of a basking shark. Mull - shortish trips - with pics Pentland Firth - with pics. Solway Coast - with pics. St Abbs Head - with pics. More here. |
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