Thursday evening's staff training was a relaxed sunset evening paddle, out from Fenella Beach (beneith the castle at Peel) 
heading south down the coast to Ny Arbyll, arriving there with enough time to for a break and some hot choc. 
Then setting off as the sun turned a brilliant orange, gradually sinking into the distant depths of the Irish sea, giving us an hour and a half display of every different shade of amazing sunset colours, turning into the whole sea into a crimson lake, then bright ripples of deep red, turning finally to purple and light blue...
It was Naomi's last paddle with us, as she leaves to go travelling in Australia and New Zealand, so it was also a time for goodbyes and good luck!
Youth Scholarship training is focussing on gradually more demanding trips, making use of the fabulous pleasant sea conditions to explore as much of the West Coast as is feasable in a session... and still manage an ice cream at the end! It looks like we have 9 students who are displaying the enthusiam and committment we require to reach the standard for the 2009 Norway expedition.
(pic shows the five on thursday's session)
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