This weekends sea kayaking course was an Intermediate course and with another super forecast, The Stacks was game on!
Ann was back over and excited to here we were of to paddle The Stacks and Keith was up for it and loving the sunshine. Zoe was in support and observing from a 4 star leader perspective ... although The Stacks would come under 5 star many elements are applicable ...
Pen Rhyn Mawr with two hours before slack water ... we did some work on eddy turns and paddling through grabby and boily eddy lines .... using shorter sharp strokes body forward and flexing with conditions ...
And then on to some exploring and mellow moments ...
Bizarrely ... I guess it was part of the cold front .. fog rolled in. South Stack lighthouse disappeared ...
More exploring ....
After lunch in parliament house cave, we headed back ... and this time in more sunshine
Sunday saw us off to the Skerries and we had a great welcome form 3,800 nesting pairs of Arctic Terns, which gave a top display .. it was a social place as another 3 teams arrived ...
We headed back during the last hour of the flood, towards Carmel Head .. with the aim of exploring a couple of the caves and tunnels ... saw a young porpoise as we crossed and closer in one of the bays the screeching call of the peregrine falcon could be heard ...
It really was that narrow ...
A couple of stunning locations, with great conditions ... I really could get used to this!
Roger
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