kayakgirlz wrote:Where on fb is it being discussed...?

That was just me, Lowri, Beth and a few other friends trying to figure out the PDF issue - you didn't miss anything!

Yep, we're discussing on FB...

DaveSt wrote:To Andy, was that you taking "an interesting line" down the top fall, whilst guiding down some folk in a raft?

Not guilty!

Thanks DaveSt - I found some there of me (green helmet), Chuck (green helmet) and Astrid (er, green helmet) near the end of the Garry album. Many thanks for sharing them! It's worth noting here in case people aren't aware that you can download whole albums from Picasaweb back into the Picasa applica...

No troubles at all - a couple of friendly walkers on the bridge at Dartmeet who appeared thrilled to see us, a local chap out walking his dog who stopped for a friendly chat* as I waited for our shuttle, and the river at a great level. Andy * I think he was disappointed I wasn't more excited about h...

It looks like you've fixed it now - I assume the page used to declare: <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> and you've changed it to: <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> ? The diamond character is what shows up when a UTF-8 decoder ...

There's this "lovely" (apparently) delight on the Kennet south-west of Reading - seven 2m-deep slots to choose from...

http://maps.google.co.uk/?ie=UTF8&ll=51 ... 3&t=h&z=21
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gavijan/75 ... 019348590/

We were first on the scene at the Onde incident and assisted with the attempted resuscitation and calling of the emergency services. We'd like to clarify what Lowri wrote above - we understand this accident was a case of tree entrapment resulting in drowning, not a heart attack (as Lowri and others ...

How much are they, do you need tp pay to leave such as in Zambia too? I think we paid $30 in 2006, they just did it right there at the little desk where they check your passport, not even any scurrying off with it... They're $50 now - make sure you take recent notes. (You don't have to pay to leave...

It's here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/page/item/b009lvwt.shtml - skip to 17:25. Just a quick mention, largely focusing on how they're coping with the website being down...

It's available on iPlayer at http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/page/item/b008vvl8.shtml - skip to 40 minutes in.

Andy

I just found this...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/devon/7171972.stm

Andy

The Independent and Times have covered it too:

http://news.google.co.uk/news?q=british ... ment%20ban

Just a thought: I suspect they have no idea how many people have taken advantage of the earlier policy. You didn't need to warn them in advance, and as far as I could see when I checked in my boat it was just treated as an extra piece of checked baggage that happened to need to go on the outsize ite...

some sporting equipment cannot be accommodated through the airport baggage system or within the aircraft hold Well that's nonsense - they managed just fine the several times I've flown my boat with BA this year. Maybe the new "state-of-the-art" baggage handling system at T5 has something to do with...

Here is the latest I know of in Uganda, Basically, they have dammed one of 2channels at silverback, (Ugly sisters channel if you know the nile). This has caused everything up until total gunga to flood out, and made silverback a portage. I flew home yesterday after a fantastic couple of weeks out t...

We ran Day One yesterday - a long paddle from Bujagali all the way to Itanda. Bujagali and 50-50 are just the same as always, but Total Gunja is just a big messy wavetrain - there's no g-spot any more. Surf City is still pretty big and has a proper zone of funny water behind it. With Ugly Sisters bl...

We ran it from below the horseshoe weir to Town Falls around 2pm. Didn't see anyone else except at the slalom site.

Yep, the Dee was great yesterday - though I have to say, not as exciting as it was the last time we paddled it five years ago...

We ran the Ogwen on Saturday too. Now that was superb!

Andy

You just need to strap your paddle bag to the boat - bingo, one item! It does depend on the check-in staff - flying to Uganda was fine with the blades separate, but the check-in staff at Entebbe insisted I strapped them together. NB BA's current sports gear weight limit is 32kg, but it'll be back do...

Three of us need to get ourselves plus creek boats from Reading or Woking to Heathrow T4 for 7am on Saturday 4th August... does anyone have good suggestions how to do this without a shuttle driver? Does the RailAir coach from Reading station take boats... and can you then get boats onto the train to...

I'd say all the problems above are caused by water on the lens - which is possibly also having an effect on the autofocus to exacerbate the problem. You could try making a little strip of the super-absorbent synthetic drying-up cloths from any supermarket - no problem with the cloth getting soaked a...

Did any of you who flew with Emirates ask/warn them in advance about your boat? I've tried calling but got a rather confused response...

thanks,
Andy

I found that some daily disposables are rubbish for paddling - non-toric Focus Dailies for example. I'd recommend Bausch & Lomb SofLens - relatively uncomfortable but they do stay in, or Focus toric Dailies.

Andy

tpage wrote:Get your kayaking pictures in there- you know it makes sense- linking images, OS maps and a Rivers Guidebook.

looky here:
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/225109

I wondered how long it'd take someone to find that :)

Sadly it's for US residents only, otherwise I'm sure someone here could win that one!

Andy

Charlie Nielsen (sp?) - the biology teacher from Southend High who took us boating in the Lake District in 1988 or so. Is he still paddling?

We ran l'Ange last week too - didn't see any kit. The middle was too low to bother with - the lower Guisane was calling!

Andy

Someone at the SMC made this: http://www.smc.org.uk/books/books_contour_maps.htm - is that suitable? The official TOPO GB maps don't show all paths anyway (though they do include roads and rivers).

hope that helps,
Andy

benjamin wrote:Here is a tricky one:
[see image above]

Is that the same place as this? I've no idea what it's called, but it flows into the south side of Loch Leven.



Rather shallow at the bottom too.