I’m working on the trip list for 2016. I have had a few requests including Norway Fiordland, Marseilles and Greece as well as beginner trips. Is there anything in particular you would like the club to do? If so, please let me know and I’ll see what we can do. I’m aiming to have a […]
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You might have seen Sarah Outen in the papers – the “British adventurer” and “explorer from Rutland” who spent the past four and a half years travelling over 25,000 miles around the world by rowing boat, cycle and kayak. During that time she cycled across the Gobi desert, paddled along the Aleutian Island […] 05.40 Alarm goes. 05.41 Alarm stops. 05.47 Finally accept that paddling requires body in kayak not in bed and get up. 07.00 Arrive at BBA. And so started Saturday 25 April 2015 as four of us planned a trip from Margate. The group consisted of me, Miranda and Sally led […] Paddling the Ardnamurchan Peninsula and the Small Isles with CKC, June 2014
Kilchoan Five Chelsea Kayak Club paddlers made their way North from London, through beautiful Scottish scenery, to join Geoff and Sandra in Kilchoan. The Argyll scenery is stunning, and Kilchoan is in a particularly beautiful part, nestled on […] Bognor Regis Winter Paddle, 24th November 2013 On a beautiful crisp winter morning 5 intrepid CKC members (Neil, Dan, Rob H, Miranda and Jac) headed to the south coast. There was a lovely shingle beach –
(not so gently sloping in places) and free easy parking – perfectly selected. We had a lovely […]
Done some work on the site. Optimised the google and bing trawling, they were killing us with requests Database optimisation work Upgraded the server, now twice as much memory as before. Done some additional page caching work What does this mean? Hopefully the website will be faster. […] The skinny middle aged runner we encountered in the carpark of The Ship pub was the first to speak. “Ah someone more mad than me,” he said, having spent 90 minutes jogging in sub zero icy and snowy conditions. He was vacillating between sheer admiration of our chutzpah to circumnavigate Hayling Island and the ludicrousness […] Thursday night and time to head down to Cremorne for some respite from London’s pre-Christmas bustle. Late as usual after a hectic day but Olwen Jac and Christoph waited patiently with all the kit ready, and their patience was rewarded with… Flashing Christmas hats! Lowering the boats off the pontoon (wearing our flashing Christmas […] We had a very interesting visit to the Port of London Authority (PLA) Operations at Woolwich yesterday. Seven of us were met on a bitterly cold morning by Tom Southall, the Deputy Manager of VTS. The PLA ops and London Coastguard are based in the same building just beside the Thames Barrier (which is independently […] CKC team up with Maldon and Dengie Canoe Club for a paddle around Osea Island on the Blackwater Estuary August 2012 By Ann Gales As well as exotic trip locations such as Sardinia, Denmark and Kilchoan, we like to try to organise some fairly local paddles in the South East, so when Rob […] |
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