Update and Coasteering at Portknockie on Thursday 29 July 2010

Wow what a day yesterday, coasteering and kayaking! Awesome fun, Karin joined Dirk, Lena, Felix and Gesa coasteering at the Bow Fiddle Rock, Portknockie. After 2 days gorge walking and canyoning the team were well up for the swimming, scrambling and jumping all associated with our coasteering site. We finished off with hot chocolate and double chocolate cake in the Puddleduck Cafe in Cullen. Wow sugar and more sugar!!

Just got home in time to tidy the kit and then sort out stuff for kayaking on the Spey.

Today we are off to do some canyoning on the River Meig near Contin and then up to Golspie for some mountain biking on Saturday. A stop over there and then down to Carbisdale Castle for a second day biking. Busy boy!!

Then I really need to get ready for setting off to Slovenia next Thursday!

Just finished tidying up the kit from our gorge walking afternoon at the Bridge of Brown today. Dirk, Lena, Felix and Gesa all had fun on the challenging climb and descent in this unique little gorge.

It is becoming very popular and there were 3 other groups using the gorge in the time that we were there. Water level up a little bit but not much past a low level. I am looking forward to trying it again when it is pumping. Had to turn back last time as some of our group were struggling in the big water.

Getting ready for the coasteering tomorrow.

Another busy day yesterday, had an afternoon gorge walking at Culloden Gorge near Inverness with Dirk, Karin, Lena, Felix and Gesa from Cologne. They are holidaying in Scotland for a second time and have based themselves in the Aberdeenshire area having stayed in Fife last time. They are a family up for fun and lots of adventure. They took great delight in exploring all of the waterfalls, slides and jumps on this amazing gorge. I am meeting them again today to do another gorge walk, this time at Bridge of Brown, Glenlivet.

We did the Culloden Gorge walk yesterday with Dirk, Karin, Lena. Felix and Gesa from Cologne. They are a lovely family and up for adventure and fun. Gesa tried to teach me some German without too much success. We did all the swimming and jumps into the deep pools and progressed all the way to the top.

When I got home we had Steph's brother and family visiting so all in all a very busy day.

Hello, we hope you have had a great weekend. We have finished our second day of the Level 1 coach training course. This course looks at people coaching both canoeing and kayaking skills. We based at the Moray Watersports Centre at the West beach Lossiemouth.

We are having a month break before the second two days which involves assessment of the groups coaching skills, safety and rescue skills and general paddling knowledge.

Everyone is working hard and showing some excellent skills but needing polish in some other bits of the syllabus.

Whilst they are honing their skills for the assessment I will be in Slovenia with a group of paddlers from the Edinburgh area. Found a split in my Wavesport Diesel, have welded it but decided to buy a new one for Slovenia!! It is to arrive on Tuesday!

Have to do some paperwork for this weekend and then relax a bit.

Have a German family wanting to do 2 gorge walks and a coasteering day this week so quite busy just now. Will post some photos of this later in the week. In the meantime here is a picture from this weekend.

Hello, we hope you have had a great weekend. We have finished our second day of the Level 1 coach training coures. We are

Had been hoping to let you know about our come and try for the Moray Tourism Development team tonight but the river was huge. Safer to come home and write about not doing it!!

A team of us are going out tomorrow night to paddle down from Knockando to Carron. If the river stays at its current level or gets higher I don't think we will take long to complete the trip!!

Our wedding dress model Rachel, from the wedding fayre at the Drumossie Hotel, Inverness won our prize draw for a half price hen party. By luck she is organising a hen do for a friend so I am sure it is going to come in very handy.

Well that was a top weekend, doing the wonderful gorge at Cawdor on Saturday and then we were at the Wedding Fayre at the Drumossie Hotel, Inverness on Sunday. It went really well with our stand looking very professional and getting quite a bit of interest from visitors. Oddly it seems the woman are more up for it than the guys, happy days.

We are now preparing for the wedding fayre at the Drumossie Hotel, Inverness tomorrow. Will park the newly signed van in a strategic place and just wait for the bookings to come in ! Drop in and say hello if you are in the area.

Sitting in Mat and Sandra's living room following our gorge walk on the Cawdor Burn this afternoon. Said a sad goodbye to my video camera as it was washed over a waterfall. Otherwise it was a fantastic day out.