This was the 2nd Winter sea kayaking advanced course and Tavi, Andy and Jon were on the weekend. We had a mixed forecast and it was promising to be colder, than what we had been experiencing, so far this Winter. Each person came with trip and tidal plans and over a coffee, options and venues were discussed. Rough water handling, moving up through flow, rolling, self and assisted rescues was the main focus. The North coast and a fair spring tide looked like it could deliver ... Harry Furlongs was the venue and I'll let the photos tell more of the tale ...
Above Tavi, paddling through the race as we all warm up to the conditions. West mouse, beacon and The Skerries can be seen to the left.
Jon on the left in green and Andy on the right in yellow, now setting about with 360 turns in rough water and ferry gliding back into the eddy ...
Peak-a-boo ... lunch and sheltering from an gently increasing wind across tide ...
It had a been a super day with a lovely playful tide race and with each person working hard and achieving a lot of what they had set them selves ....
Forecast below, and me wondering what Sunday would really end up looking like!!
After the 3 sorting out a shuttle (thanks Jon and Tavi), we set off from close to Anglesey sea salt, on the West end of the Menai Straits for what I hoped was going to be a down wind run with wind against tide ... but we had a fair bit of calm, and the sun shone, but the wind was cold ... (light f4)
And we had some of the above. It wasn't what I had expected, but it ended up being a nice and gentle end to another good weekend. Even more so after hot chocolates in Dylan's!!
Roger
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