 | 15th Jul 2006 | Wye
Floating down the Wye on a hot summer's day with Blair, Helen and Liz.
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 | 6th Mar 2006 | Kimmeridge
A chilly but sunny morning's surf at Kimmeridge.
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 | 22nd Jan 2006 | Angel Island, San Francisco Bay
A work trip to San Francisco gave me the chance to explore the Bay Area on a warm, sunny day. Hiring a kayak in Sausalito, I did a quick solo circumnavigation of Angel Island, accompanied by a few seals.
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 | 25th Nov 2005
to 30th Nov 2005 | White Nile, Uganda - Hairy Lemon
Chilled out days at the Hairy Lemon, interspersed with manic, bouncy boating at Nile Special.
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 | 20th Nov 2005
to 24th Nov 2005 | White Nile, Uganda - NRE basecamp
A superb trip to Uganda to paddle the White Nile with Neil & Hicksy. Warm water and BIG waves!
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 | 5th Nov 2005 | Snowdonia Paddling
A great weekend of paddling with Alex, Blair and Kev with good water conditions.
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 | 20th Aug 2005 | Hurley Regatta
Lard and I went down to the Hurley Regatta to see bathtub and raft antics on the Thames. More clotted cream, sir?
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 | 11th Jun 2005
to 12th Jun 2005 | Sea paddling - Poole harbour to Lulworth Cove
A scenic trip along the Dorset coast with Kev, Ashley and Mark.
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 | 29th May 2005 | Saunton
Weekend in sunny Saunton with Liz, Kev F, Alice, Tim, Vicky and Amanda.
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 | 10th Apr 2005 | Hambledon
1 gate at Hambledon on a sunny Sunday morning, with and without ramp assistance. Photos by Liz.
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 | 2nd Jan 2005 | Guernsey - Surfing at Vazon
A big gathering turned up to celebrate the New Year with some more messy surf. Photo credit goes to Liz.
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 | 27th Dec 2004 | Surfing at Portinfer
A much better day for photography!! :o)
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 | 23rd Dec 2004 | Surfing at Vazon
A windy, messy day at Vazon.
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 | 31st Oct 2004 | North Esk (lower)
A high water autumn run down the classic North Esk with Alex and Hicksy.
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 | 23rd Oct 2004 | Wet Wales
Noah and his ark visited Wales last week, bringing lots of rain and flooding. So I joined Tim for 2days of paddling in Snowdonia. A great warm-up to a new paddling season!
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 | 7th May 2004 | 4gates at Hurley... in May!!
Unseasonal recent rains provide a rare chance to sample Hurley on 4gates in warm daylight. God bless global warming... ;o)
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 | 22nd Apr 2004 | Hurley on 2 gates
Evening paddle, very busy but always fun.
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 | 3rd Feb 2004 | Shepperton Weir
The Thames was high and 10gates open on Shepperton weir. This was my first visit, and it was fantastic! BOOP BOOP!! :o)
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 | 2nd Jan 2004 | Surfing at Saunton
Clear blue skies and a clean 3ft - a nice relaxing afternoon at Saunton to recover from the New Year excesses!
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 | 1st Jan 2004 | River Erme, Devon
A classic Grade 4, done on New Years Day in low levels with Neil, Jim and Blair. All good fun, apart from Jim's brief head-first inspection of a weir.
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 | 7th Dec 2003 | Surfing in Portugal, Day 4 - Praia da Bordeira
Another fun day. Waves approx 3ft+ and clean, gloriously sunny and 6hrs at the beach.
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 | 6th Dec 2003 | Surfing in Portugal, Day 3 - Praia da Bordeira
Waves dropped to 3-4ft, but the sun was out all day and the waves stayed clean. Beach rugby was needed as a post-lunch warm-up, causing more injuries than 4days surfing!
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 | 5th Dec 2003 | Surfing in Portugal, Day2- Praia do Amado
Second day of the trip, sets reaching 4ft+ and a bit of sun - nice! Participants were Nick, Neil D, Blair, Jim, Hicksy, Tim, Mike, Sambo, Scott and Neil P.
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 | 9th Nov 2003 | FINS!!
I must be mad - drilling holes into my one and only playboat!! These are from the "construction" phase; photos of the finished job still to come.
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 | 9th Aug 2003
to 10th Aug 2003 | Chertsey (again....)
100deg F. in London - scorchio!!
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 | 5th Aug 2003 | Chertsey |
 | 31st Jul 2003 | Chertsey
A busy evening down at Chertsey
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 | 17th May 2003
to 26th May 2003 | Paddling in the French Alps
Paddling with Neil & Blair. All photos taken on one of those not-so-great disposable cameras and then digitised using my not-so-great scanner. So apologies for the photos showing a tiny blob of a kayaker in the background!!
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 | 29th Nov 2002
to 2nd Dec 2002 | Kayak surfing in Portugal, Dec 02
Surf kayaking on the south-west coast of Portugal with Blair, Neil, James and Mike.
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 | 1st Aug 2002
to 31st Jan 2003 | Kayaking on the Thames weirs
various paddling antics at Chertsey with Blair and Mapledurham with Neil and Blair
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 | 29th Mar 2002
to 7th Apr 2002 | Kayaking in Corsica, Easter 02
Neil, Hicksy & myself travelled to Corsica in search of technical rivers and big waterfalls.... it didn't rain, so only we found 1 river in condition!! (But it was worth it!)
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 | 30th Jun 2001
to 8th Jul 2001 | Kayaking in Austria, Jul 2001
Kayaking in Austria and Switzerland with Liz, Neil, Blair, Helen, Tim, Kirsty, Ali, Phil, Gaynor, Steve
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 | 6th Jun 1997
to 15th Jul 1997 | Kayaking in the French and Italian Alps, Jun-Jul 97
5weeks kayaking in the French and Italian Alps with Neil, Alex and Phil etc. Included 2 trips down the spectacular Verdon Gorge.
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 | 6th Jun 1996
to 20th May 1996 | Kayaking in the French Alps, Jun 96
2weeks kayaking in the French Alps with Neil, Alex, Phil, Ali and others. My first Alpine trip!
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 | 31st Mar 1993
to 31st Mar 1997 | Sea kayaking around Guernsey
Various surfing and rock-hopping fun around Guernsey during my school and university days.
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