It's quit busy lately, so working on this weblog is slacking down a bit. It feels like I am a squeezed in a narrow gap between kayak-weeks. Hardly recovered from Spiekeroog and now Anglesey is on. Life isn't so bad! In between there is family, work, a Seakayak-committee (this list is written in the social accepted order, really don't know what costs most time lately. Ssstt... ;-) and more - hardly any time left to prepare for the next kayakweek.
On the other hand - Anglesey should be a real kayak-holiday: no coaching job, just paddling for fun together with Govert (a great companion and a very experienced seakayaker). So there is no real need to work out a programs, to inform participants and so on. Just pack the gear and leave! Don't worry, just see what next week brings. Let it happen, this is freedom!
Yet I am a bit of "the conscious kind" and always feel some urge to prepare something. This morning I took time to organize nautical trip-information: tides and streams, VHF Channels: I put the information I collected from the visit with Axel in Anglesey (back in 2003), from the Pilots, and the copies of an old Admiralty Chart, on one Ordnance Survey Map. Maybe an useless activity of mine, because we will buy a new Nautical Chart in Wales and all this information is already available in a perfect accessible and condensed format in the outstanding book Welsh Sea Kayaking by Jim Krawiecki and Andy Biggs (thanks for the hint Axel!), but arranging this information helps myself in understanding how it works with the tides, streams, eddies and races around Anglesey.
If you don't know yet why Anglesey is every seakayakers wet dream, and why it attracts kayakers of all over the world: just enjoy the This is the Sea-Video's of Justine Curgenven andr have a look at the blogs of Derrick (122 pictures...) and Axel who recently visited Anglesey.
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