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Leaving the tourist honeypot that is Doolin at 6am we pulled our kayaks along an empty road that is normally alive with throngs of...

The challenge of kayaking around Ireland is not something we had planned to do, it was a reaction in April this year to the war in...

We arrived at Schull in the south west corner of Ireland on the 7th June on a grey day with low cloud and heavy drizzle, it was quite...

Rather than write general progress blogs all the time I wanted to focus on one paddle for this post and decided the moment the compass...

PROGRESS : We had planned the second leg to run down the east coast, rounding Carnsore Point to Fethard on the south coast where we would...

A week before leaving for the Round Ireland challenge I broke my favourite paddle in a silly surf accident that shouldn’t have happened...

All our ducks finally came in a row and on Wednesday 11th May we drove down to catch the ferry from Holyhead to Dublin, on the way I...

Sarah Wootton and Paul Thompson have been paddling together for a few years mainly on the Northumbrian coast and west coast of Scotland....

Just over a year ago we ordered 50/50 lay-up kevlar / glass Romany Classics for the round Scotland paddle. These boats "took some hammer"...

This website is unashamedly about Fundraising for the people of Ukraine and we were struck by the strong message, powerful imagery and...

one week to go before our sea kayak round Ireland

Seven months had gone by since we pulled the kayaks for the last time out of the water at Gretna 2350 kilometres of sea having passed...