Waking up we were somewhat surprised to see the ground around our chalets covered with snow. Now, seeing the ground all white was not helping with the motivation for getting all cold and wet on river! Negating this, we headed across to the Orchy. Upon arrival the motivation was no…
Scotland day 2 – Spean Gorge and Arkaig
Another early start was required today in order to achieve our target of the Coe and the Orchy, which meant leaving at 0830. Arriving at the Coe we were disappointed to discover that the level had dropped off too much meaning that it was too low to paddle. We decided…
Scotland day 1 – the Blackwater
The remainder of the journey to our accommodation in Roy Bridge was fairly uneventful, with just the heavy rain to contend with. Following dinner, we headed to the pub for a swift drink, which very quickly turned into considerably more than just the one. Having decided to head east to…
Scotland here we come…
The time has come around again to head north to the land of bagpipes and haggis – Scotland. The outlook for the week is considerably different to the low water levels were had last year. The west coast has seen a generous helping of rain over the last week or…
Safari Photos
I have uploaded some of my photos from our Safari at Murchison Falls National Park in Uganda. The photos are available here on Facebook African Buffalo A Giraffe A Lion Some Elephants with a Hippo in the foreground Murchison Falls viewed from the bottom
Uganda photos
I have started to put some of my photos from my Uganda trip online, available here on Facebook Getting on below Kalagala Falls Reuben demonstrating the right-hand line down Bujagali Falls One of the many beautiful sunsets we were treated to Looking down the tongue at Silverback. If you look…
Uganda – The trip is now complete…
I thought that my previous post, earlier this morning, would be the last one I would write from Uganda. That was still my thoughts until I got half way down the last rapid this morning. We started off running the Hump, which we both managed without a single roll. Next…
Uganda – Last day
Well, the time has almost come to say goodbye to this amazing place. I have really enjoyed my trip out here and will be sad to board the plane home later today. Following our return from Safari on Sunday night we planned to spend Monday night at the Hairl Lemon…
Uganda day 11 – Entertaining times
Well, it turns out I spoke a bit too soon in my last blog post on Thursday. Following my post we went to run some backchannels – namely Bladerunner and Brickyard. Bladerunner we have run before so know the line well. Max went down first and just flipped in the…
Uganda day 7 – Lovin’ it!
The internet has been down here for a few days so I have not been able to post sooner. Since my last post we have run all of the main rapids on the river. On Saturday we paddled from the bottom of Kalagala Falls down to Nile Special. Paul made…