It was the start of the Winter Skills Xplore - Intermediate sea kayaking weekend, sadly Keith was unwell, so he had to cancel on the Friday. This left Douglas, Rich and Tavi and over a coffee and a couple of plans were discussed and created. This plan mainly was a big longer day working with forward paddling and then a rescue rough water day ... Sunday was due to be rougher, so the longer paddle day made sense on Saturday.
Moelfre to Point Lynas and back was the outline idea and above we have Douglas striking out, Tavi and then Rich.
With one hour before low water slack Point Lynas was sleeping, so we landed round the corner, had lunch and then as the flood began to build, we eddy hoped our way further along the coast to East Mouse, ferry glided out and then jumped on the flood tide back to the point ...
The rain arrived, heavy at times ....
And as we got closer to Moelfre the sun came out and silky seas arrived ...
Sunday and a F4/5 NW and a desire to get rough, saw us at Cemlyn Bay doing some tows in the swell, before heading out towards the outer race of Harry Furlongs, with some wind against tide and confused sea state ...
We did a couple of runs through, across and then back up ..with assisted rescues, rolling in swell and then swell and flow, using the group to assist and towing to pull the rescue out of the flow ...
With some catching waves and lapping up the winter sunshine as we went ... back in the bay, their was an option for practising self rescues, before loading the van and returning to Menai Bridge and saying our good byes.
ps: hope your feeling better and more rested now Keith
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