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Sunday 3 October 2010

A kayak's eye view part 1.




Hello again! I thought you might be interested in seeing the EBD's journey from a kayak's eye view. Like me you will have followed their adventure with feet firmly on solid ground - I have so many pictures of the EBD putting kayak together, setting off, arriving ... so now we are home and have more or less acclimatised to 'normal' life, I've downloaded pictures from James' camera to see what they were up to when they paddled out of sight!
As you will appreciate, there were several moments when it was impossible for the EBD to mess around with clever photography - after all, when the weather - and waves - get tough, the tough have to keep hold of their paddles! And of course there were times when their hands were full of oaty bars, chocolate and sheep. What I'm trying to say is, sorry, we don't have a very extensive series of kayak's eye view pics, but hopefully enough to give you an idea of what it would have been like if YOU had been sitting in the kayak!

First picture is typical of what I spent a lot of time doing - the kayak, the car, the support team fiddling around with a map or something, in the car park as we set off from Corpach Sea Lock by Fort William.

As I was busy cycling up the wrong side of the canal, the EBD went off with the camera and watched a yacht coming through Neptune's Staircase at Banavie.

Eleanor's favourite part of the journey is shown in photo 3 - a peaceful section of the canal between Banavie and Moy bridge. The road swings away from the canal here and makes for quiet paddling through woods and farmland.

An atmospheric picture at the start of Loch Lochy.


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