4 day Tay

A lovely 4 days on the River Tay travelling from Kenmore to Perth. Elaine and Roy from Aberdeen had some canoeing in the past but really fancied doing the Tay and learning a bit more about river and canoe safety.

 Day 1 Kenmore to Grandtully

 Lunch day one, wet and windy

 Moody clouds, signifying heavy rain later in the day

 SCA rapid

 Day two heading heading to Dunkeld

 Warm hat, sun glasses and hood up........ Must be June

 Lunch day two

 Photo at Otterstone Pool

 Beautiful Scenery entering Dunkeld

 Day 3 heading to Stanley Mills

 Lunch day 3, sheltering from the wind

 One of many bridges over the Tay

 Running the weir at Stanley 

 Big wave trains heading down to Stanley Mills

 Little surf at the start of day 4

 Coming through the bridge at Perth

 Finished in Perth

Hen Party

Had a really lovely trip down the River Lyon and Tay yesterday with a Hen party from Aberdeen. Super cool bunch of ladies. Well done ladies.

 The 'Mothers' boat

 Smiles all round floating down the river Tay

 Lunch stop on the banks of the river Lyon

 Everybody fed and watered

 Cruising towards Aberfeldy

 Learning of what?

Team photo with General Wade's Bridge in the back ground

Well that was May

What a bonkers month! The month began with with a marrige.....Mine:) Then a quick honeymoon in Turkey, then canoeing, canoeing and some more canoeing.

 Happiest Day ever

 Some relax time

 Young Carers on Loch Faskally

 Lunch stop on Faskally

 River Lochay with Lomand School

 Loch Lubnaig Bronze Expedition

 Safety training on the River Tay

Resting after the whitewater

Weekend in the hills

Not Beverley Hills! The Trossachs. Out and about with a Bronze practise Duke of Edinburgh's Award group from Fettes College. Two days of wall to wall sunshine, couldn't have been any nicer.

 Camp spot for the night

Some minor boot repair!

 Sorted!

 Sunset over the camp

Stars beginning to become visible

Lomand again

Back on Loch Lomond, this time with Fettes College on their Gold DofE practise expedition. In terms of training expedition this one couldn't have given them more preparation, big winds, snow, sleet, heavy rain and flat calm with sunshine, should set them up for the Great Glen in August quiet nicely.

 Day 1 in the sun

Another storm passing through, I think this one was the snow!

Another storm on its way

Evening rescues in the very welcome sunshine

Watching the sun go down from my hammock on night 3

Loch Lomond DofE

Just back from a Silver Duke of Edinburgh's Award Assessment with St Aloysuis College. The weather was more than in our favour. Day 2 was a little breezy but the first and last day more than made up for it. Lets hope this continues for the weekend with Fettes College on their Gold training again on Loch Lomond

 Day 1

 Lunch stop, day 1

My digs on the first night

Hammocking in the evening sun

Night 2 in the hammock

Filling out paperwork in my hammock in the evening sun

Dusk at camp 2

 Morning Day 3

Flat calm conditions

And just kept getting better and better

And we are off

All new for 2015, just started my new job working for Beyond Adventure. Some boat set up and maintainance, safety kayaking for a slalom meet, meeting/ fun paddle with Wilderness Scotland and a family day on the river.

Slalom action

 

 One of my boses

 The always impressive 'Wade's Bridege' over the river Tay

Todays family group

Chilli Splash

First canyon session of 2015 yesterday. Was a little fresh with the water been snow melt! 

Lower Orchy

So once again Grant and I were on the river, and once again we went for the best day of the week weather wise. That's right, not on Tuesday when it was super sunny and no wind, not Wednesday when there were light showers, oh no, today when there was vertical rain with rain drops as big as a 50 pence, wind that would blow boats of roofs and us back up the river. But fun times never the less.

 The spectacular Falls of Orchy at the get on

Grant running the weir

Playing on the little wave

  If you zoom in you can see how wet it was by Grants hair:)