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On Saturday which was the first day of the 9th Scottish Sea Kayaking Symposium on Skye, Jim Weir and I took of group of really nice folk out onto Loch Eishort on the north west of Skye's Sleat peninsula. At first the wind was a gusty force 4 southerly but the arrival of torrential rain soon killed the wind. The outline of Bla Bheinn, an outlier of the Cuillin ridge, can just be seen behind Nigel.
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We launched at Ord and made our way east up the loch...
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...past the delightful coral sands of Eilean Gaineamhach an Arda.
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We were lucky enough to spot a pair of white tailed sea eagles. One of them had at least one faded orange or red wing tag.
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The hills were running with torrents of water...
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which poured over the beaches and into the loch.
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I don't think anywhere does rain as well as Skye!
23/05/2009