Gwilym's Adventure Blog

A little lumpy on the sea in Torbay today for a 1:1 sea kayak award preparation working for Wet and High Adventures Ltd.  Launching from Meadfoot Beach and starting with acclimatising to a sea kayak and waves. After this it was some rock hoping and some self rescue skills before venturing round into some rougher conditions on the way to and under London Bridge. And that ends my sunny road trip of Cornwall and Devon. Back in the office tomorrow sorting out stuff for the next week or so.

   This date has been in the diary for some time with good friend Olly. Originally entered on my phone  as "play with Olly", we decided to make it a sea kayak day. We paddled the 24km from Broadsands (Paignton) round Berry Head to Dartmouth and upto Galmpton (in the Dart Estuary). A carefully calculated tidal plan saw us get a 2knt push (giving us about 4knts travelling speed with very little effort) from Berry Head to within 3km of Dartmouth then we just paddled round to the castles before catching the incoming tide up to Galmpton Creek. We did have to stop in Dartmouth for lunch of course. All that was left was for me to run 2.5km back to the start point to collect the van. A nice way to finish the day with a short jog. We saw a number of seals and as Olly caught some mackerel on route, I am blogging whilst he is firing up the BBQ.

A relaxed and sunny paddle today out of Teignmouth with Hannah, Heidi and Jo. The sun shone, the water was warm (ish), the tides were good, the doughnuts were good. In fact, an all round good day out.

Today I was in Torbay working for Blue Dot Adventure with a group paddling from Meadfoot Beach to Anstey's Cove for lunch and then return. The sun shone, the sea was calm (apart from around Thatcher Rock) and the group were great.

Today I was doing a supported DofE assessment for Danny. ie he is new to it so I was helping him out. Fortunately Danny also paddles so we got a few hours afloat around Babbacombe  in between seeing the group.