Day 1, Saturday: Up sharpish and across to Loch Ken, car and canoe packed read to go the night before. Taking the ‘Old Town Jack’ for me and Michael in his inflatable outboard. Wants to get it registered at Loch Ken and he’s getting lazy and doesn’t want to paddle! The idea is to drop me at St John’s or the bridge just upstream (whichever is easiest to put in at) and paddle down the River Ken to one of the islands near Little Kenmure Loch (about 5.5 miles). Reckon that’ll take me 3-4 hours to get down.
From Sevylor inflateable, to Old Town Discovery 158, and now addition of Old Town Pack to the fleet... Still the same back to basics attitude; fires, tarps, teepee's. And the same two idiots!!
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Tuesday, May 29, 2012
Monday, May 28, 2012
Foiled Again…
Few things happening, and a trip 5-6 hours away and potentially being a day and a half from the car when we’re there wasn’t a good idea… So, Loch Ken it is and hopefully our trusty comrade Green Island. If that’s busy which it could well be on a Jubilee Weekend, we’ll find somewhere on the banks or just inside the River Dee. Michael’s found that the American Crayfish are taking over Loch Ken, and people are being urged to catch/kill/eat as many as possible – sounds like our sort of challenge!
We’ll have you next time Caledonian! Maybe…
We’ll have you next time Caledonian! Maybe…
Monday, May 21, 2012
Planning The End
A rather dramatic title to mark the beginning of what should be the completion of the Great Glen canoe trip.. But certainly not the end of canoeing! The Queen very kindly has given us an extra day’s holiday for the first weekend in June, must be something important going on? And as luck would have it the very same weekend is promising to be a very sunny, if a little bold, affair… Thanks Queeny!
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