After our first successful mission in the North west, we decided to focus on the Central Highlands and on the possibility of some bigger drops and bigger volume. So, it was back onto the train ready for a 28 hour journey to the city of Nah Trang, followed by an invigorating 5 hours in a [...]

Posted on July 28th, 2009 by British Universities Kayaking Expedition
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It was only two months since we paddled through Patagonian seas, but two months off the water felt like a lifetime. The weeble that I am (with no muscles that work below the chest) felt very wobbly as I nosed my way out of the jetty in Laide – a west coast Scottish village, its [...]

Posted on April 7th, 2009 by karen
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Big Sky Country

Cold, waiting for the tide to change in the narrows

Our first iceberg…shame there was no sun

Posted on February 12th, 2009 by karen
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It squeezed us dry of every last drop of energy, and then demanded more. Patagonia, that distant magical place with towering spires for mountains and roller coaster seas, where someone told me “there’s nothing much doing with the tides from what I remember”, ate us up. It lived up to its name as ‘The Eater [...]

Posted on February 2nd, 2009 by karen
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