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Friday, January 08, 2010

Return to Dougarie

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It had started to snow with a northerly wind as we set off across the Kilbrannan Sound on our return to Arran. By the time we were halfway a...
Thursday, January 07, 2010

Time to go in the Carradale Water

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We left the pines of Torrisdale Bay and paddled north, past a series of skerries, to enter Carradale Bay. At the west end of the bay we disc...
Wednesday, January 06, 2010

Torrisdale Bay in the Kilbrannan Sound.

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So sooner had we turned south from the rusting piles of Carradale than this amazing view opened up; right down the Kilbrannan Sound to Ailsa...
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Tuesday, January 05, 2010

"Bru'd in Carradale from girders"

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We paddled past Dougarie Point on Arran's west coast on towards the distant Kintyre peninsula. There is a raised beach round most of the...
Monday, January 04, 2010

An early morning wardrobe malfunction.

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Alan, Phil and I convened at the Ardrossan ferry terminal for the Arran ferry. We arrived just after 6am for the 7am ferry. We loaded 3 kaya...
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Sunday, January 03, 2010

Alpen glow brings the 2009 sea kayaking year to a close.

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As we crossed Fairlie Roads we left the navigation buoys marking the edge of the the shipping lane behind. In the distance to the SW, Ailsa ...
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Saturday, January 02, 2010

Two piers, a lion and a smokeless chimney

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From Millport Bay, on Great Cumbrae's south coast, we rounded Farland Point and entered the the Fairlie Roads channel. On the far side o...