Neil's 5* Sea Award!

Congratulations Neil!!

on passing your BCU 5* Sea Award this week in North Wales.


Rock Climbing session

Adventure Club & mid-week paddles

Discover Sea Kayaking - beginners course

Gorge Scrambling Adventures

Corporate Activity Afternoon

May in Bloom

St Johns Village - in the centre of the Isle of Man... absolutely breath taking!

Sunshine every day certainly brings out lots of smiles.

Theia is loving every minute of it :)

2010 is looking like a scorcher!

Anglesey Sea Kayak Symposium 2010
Adventurous Experiences staff head over as guest coaches to the SKUK symposium hosted by Nigel Dennis, every year. It is based in a perfect position to paddle 'The Stacks' - a series of headlands protuding out into strong tide, and the resulting tidal races and overfalls attract paddlers from all over the world. (I met coaches and students from 14 different countries during the festival).

Apart from paddling and coaching in a different environment, we were there to promote the Isle of Man Sea Kayak Symposium - held in the last weekend in September, every year.

This will be our 08th year of hosting the event, and judging from the predicted summer and interest at the Anglesey event, this year will be a cracker!

Watching the Climbers at Castell Helen sea cliff as we paddled beneath, nesting Guillimots and Razorbills (as well as a few other antics they were up to) and exploring the caves with a little bit of swell running...

Rough water pics (taken by onlookers) on the Sea Kayaking UK website.

Great fun, thanks for a terrific weekend!

Keirron

providing the perfect experience...

Gorge Scrambling
An exciting experience in a safe and challenging environment, attainable for anyone who feels the desire to get wet and have a laugh!

Climbing the mini-waterfalls and sliding down the natural shutes... amazing fun.

Back at home, Theia was also getting her excitement in, with introduction to moving bath water :)

No paddle strokes necessary!

Mid-week paddles continue, mostly relaxed explorations in nature, and the lads training regularly for their charity open crossing in July are showing steady improvement.

Coaching at all levels - adventure on the Isle of Man

Rock Climbing - for beginners

Bev & Mill booked for a Rock Cimbing session with us, having had very little previous experience.

So we started off with some basic footwork and easy bouldering around Peel Castle, increasing the gradient slowly and emphasising the use of the legs.

We then headed round to a few roped climbs, and selected one which suited their ability.

Warm and sunny, with a light sea breeze... pretty nice!

Sunday's Sea Kayak Training

Kicking off with a beginners and improvers session in the morning, we used a corner of the bay to practice strokes and edging before setting off along the coast.

Taking a break beneath the cliffs before heading back to the beach.

Some challenging conditions for this ability level, and everyone improved visibly during the trip.

The Intermediates headed for the Sound where thare was a easy flow running, perfect for the coaching session we had in mind.

With plenty of practice an different angles of breaking in and out of the current, we finished with wet skills, including a couple of re-entry and rolls!

The evening session was for the lads training for the open crossing to Scotland at the beginning of July.

We used the ample conditions to enhance their forward paddling - particularly the delivery of power, and also managed some breathtaking views, and a sorte through the cave.

The sea mist and low cloud which had been intermittant througout the day was peeling back from Bradda head as we paddled home..



Another tremendous day on the water!

Keirron

Corporate Coasteering challenge

We ran this experience for a group of 5 colleagues, who wanted a team challenge outside the normal working environment...

...and that was what they got! :)

Keirron