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Sea Kayaking 22nd August 2008 |
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Daddy,
tell me about girls.
Son, one day you will make a girl very happy for a short period of
time. Then she'll leave you and be with new men who are ten times better
than you could ever hope to be.
These men are called kayakers. |
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River Tay and Grantully Rapids, Whit
week 2008 |
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Dave
P cooking the gas at Grantully |
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Mad
child about to disappear over a waterfall. |
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Dreadful
Scottish weather as usual. |
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Rest
day - Ben Nevis. |
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Nene White Water Centre 13th April
2008 (Unlucky for some). Trip arranged by Mark Driffill |
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We
happy few |
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Sequence
showing Mark Driffill on the main drop. 1. The Approach |
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2.
The Drop |
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3.
The Landing |
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From
another angle. If your experience is limited this looks intimidating from
the boat. |
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Somnambulistic
Nick wakes up to find his bed has turned into a boat on a waterfall. |
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Doh! |
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Chandra on another
drop on the course |
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St Ives, Cornwall October 2007 |
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Tackling
the fearsome Atlantic Rollers |
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It's
behind you! |
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James
performs a tail squirt...or something |
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Late
afternoon sun in St Ives during the last week of October - remind me - why
is global warming a problem? |
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Getting
it right(ish).. |
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..and
getting it wrong |
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Nene White Water Centre August 2007 |
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At
the start ready to go - a group of NCC paddlers (not sure of the correct
collective noun - suggestions on a postcard). |
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Boofing
the main drop. The Nene White Water Centre is a great place to learn to do
this. |
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Dave
coaching attentive students from the bank. |
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Another
successful run (for some people) |
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PaddlePower Summer (?) 2007 |
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The
Marshall brothers performing a spot of lake maintenance - well done men |
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Unruly
PaddlePower students are not allowed to use paddles or sit in their boats |
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Quick
game of Kerplunk |
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And
again |
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Tryweryn (Bala,Wales) July 2007 |
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Brian
Marshall elegantly boofs into an eddy on the rapid known as "The
Graveyard" |
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Somnambulistic
Nick
Tait wakes up for long enough to hit an eddy at the top of The Graveyard |
Open
Weekend 2007 |
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Lakeside,
Sunday afternoon |
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Eagle
eyed lake supervisor diligently scans the water looking for signs of
trouble. Obviously the t-shirt has been misappropriated from its rightful
owner. |
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Factory
built catamaran (Kata-Kanu) out on the lake while in the foreground is one
Paul Brazinskas built from 2 canoes, some empty washing up liquid bottles,
some string and sticky backed plastic. Blue Peter badge in the post Paul. |
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We
used some special magnetic boats this year to prevent people becoming too
dispersed on the lake |
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The
sun sets on another open weekend |
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Newark Weir |
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Newsletter
editor Joe Kendall on the wave at Newark Weir in his Dagger Mamba |
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Expert
playboating moves from chairman Kev Elliot |
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Club visit to River Tees - 2006 |
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One
for the ladies - a handsome group of club members by the River Tees |
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Steve
W in his Pyranha Burn powers over Low Force on the Tees |
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Dell
negotiates the famous dog-leg |
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Steve
positions himself for the "boof" keeping the bow up |
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A
determined Dell launches himself over Low Force (we haven't seen him
since) |
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Steve
morphs into club chairman Kev Elliot who has a quick game of submarines in
his Pyranha H3 |
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River Witham |
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