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Loch Lomond in winter, taken by Hugh KerrA chance to do a bit of desktop paddling on a bad weather day or get ideas for the future. The reports range in nature from brief factual reports to aspirant Shakespeare (or should that be Brian Wilson!).

Please Note: Where relevant names may have been changed to avoid embarrassment, legal claims or because the webmaster has been suitably bribed. Any resemblance to actual paddlers living or dead is purely coincidental .......... ........maybe!

Contributions are very welcome, indeed essential, and can be written, oral, visual or a mixture of all three! Visitors to Scotland are particularly welcome to this page and are invited to send contributions for the overseas section to tempt us abroad!

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The First Time
Do you remember your
first time? Or have you never paddled and want to know what it is like? A great piece on learning to sea kayak.

   
West Coast, South of Ardnamurchan
Mull Magic - An article with photos on a trip to Ross of Mull, Iona, Staffa and Treshnish Isles, Just Another Sunday
Or is it? What is lurking below the surface!

West Coast, North of Ardnamurchan

St Kilda
Wow! An interesting report, with photos, of a trip from the Outer Hebrides to St Kilda in July 2000. Yes, it is a long way!

Moidart 2002

Small Isles May 2002 (Not)
An eventful trip at Rona and Raasay covering Viagra, the Queen's Jubilee and submarines.

Flannan Isles 2002
An illustrated article on paddling to these remote and spectacular islands west of the Outer Hebrides. (added 23/10/02)

   
North Coast, Orkney and Shetland
Papa Stour - A regular on the SCA Calendar and a magical place.  
   
East Coast

   
Rivers and Inland Lochs
River Tay, Source to Sea
An article with photos on a 4 day Open Canoe trip down the Tay.
River Spey - Write up of a4 day SCA trip through ever changing Speyside from Newtonmore to the sea at Spey Bay.
 
   
Overseas

Malta - A short ditti on the joys of Maltese waters from our overseas corespondent, Cuan Ard.

 
   

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