Portland Circumnavigation by Sea Kayak

Olly on the choppy West side

Rounding Portland Bill

Me on the calmer East side

Sunny lunch break

Today Olly and I headed down to Dorset and completed a anti clockwise circuit of Portland. As predicted the east side was choppy and it was an interesting launch of Chesil Beach. However our plan worked and the tidal flow whipped us along nicely to Portland Bill where we had a bit of fun getting through the tide race round the headland. Once on the east side things calmed down a lot and we had a more sedate paddle (including lunch) back to Portland Harbour where we battled a head wind to get in to the beach from the break water.