A Highland fling for Jeff's Angels!!

The first week of June saw Emily, Caroline, Ronel and I meeting up in Ullapool to set off on a week long expedition.

The mission was, should the three ladies accept the challenge to paddle out from Ardmore campsite just north of Ullapool and head north, paddling up through the Summer Isles, around Rubha Coigeach and into Enard Bay, a couple of days exploring the many small Islands of this beautiful location before heading Northwards to the Point of Stoer and then onto Oldany and Handa Islands, then we would turn south and visit the Kylesku Hotel at the mouth of Loch Glencoul where we would all enjoy a slap up meal of locally caught Langoustines, to be washed down by several pints of beer. The journey was completed in good time and we even managed to retrace our steps back to Oldany Island for a campfire meal, where we cooked locally picked mussels. Before a leisurely final days paddling back around the Old Man of Stoer and down to Lochinver. Finally returning to Ullapool at the end of what had been a truly memorable week of highland paddling.The first evening the weather was a little damp, but after several swigs of wine to fortify us we settled down to some good tucker and decided whoever was last packed in the morning would have to get the pints in when we arrived at Lochinver. Guess who lost?Into the second day the weather cleared and for the remainder of the week was to stay clear and warm, here's Ronel pointing the way, no its this way!!!

Caroline with the Corbettis of Assynt beyond.

Lumpy seas off Rubha Cogeach

Wild Camping at Achmelvich

For a further look at the expedition photo's go to our gallery page.

Hadas and Tomer in Newfoundland

We finaly found a place with Internet, so much has happend in these 2weeks, can't remember it all but i'll write about some of it.Anyway, every little place we arive at, people are telling us we will soon see lots of ice and finaly after a week and a half we saw our first small iceberg. We got sooo exited we took lots of pictures. By the next day we had hundreds of icebergs floating beside us as we paddled along, and daybefore yesterday it finaly happened, we actually got stuck in the ice, surounded by heavy fog as well.

How scarrrryyy!!!!All i wanted was to find the way out and get on to dry land. Yesterday, after spending most of the day in the tent on some rocky shoreline it cleared a bit and we got so optimistic, we imagined our selves crossing this 18 km bay that's right in front of us. So we packed quickly,hopped into the boats and set off, just to find after 5 km that the way is totally blocked with thick ice on the water.

What a sight!!!!! We pulled our kayaks on to the cliffs under the lighthouse on Cape Norman, put up the tent and tied it to the kayaks and walked to the nearby town, 5 km away,

Cook's harbour. This is where we are spending today as well, recharging batteries and bodies.

We are hoping that today's wind will blow some ice off shore and let us cross tomorrow. So far we had just one shower in these 2 weeks. Holly crap!!!!

But we do bath in the 0 degrees sea water every other day.My head is itching.....Ok, to cut it short for now, we miss our friends but are having a fantastic time in the ice. Will write next time we find Internet

Tomer getting ready for bath time, this is one for the ladies, watch out Hadas!

H&F

Intermediate Basking Sharks!!

We had a great day out on the water today on the second day of a five day intermediate course. After loading up the van we headed for Sennen Cove. From there we headed out to lands end where we had the real treat of seeing 5 or 6 basking sharks.

We even had one jump clean out of the water! I had never seen one do that before and it gave us all a bit of a fright!