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2 Day Dorset Jurassic Coast Wild Camping Adventure
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A 2 day ADVENTURE to remember. Following the coast east from Ringstead Bay passed the first camp site option at Bats Hole beach and on to ’Scratchy Bottom’ at the famous Durdle Door. Wild camping on the beaches in quiet coves with snorkelling, fishing, caving and a visit to historic Lulworth Cove.
The famous Durdle Door rock offers a beautiful beach for sunbathing, snorkelling & swimming. We wild camp on a beach only accessable by kayak & socialise and cook around an open fire! Lulworth Cove offers a welcome rest stop with fresh hot food and a drink. We complete our adventure back at Ringstead Bay at around 4pm on the final day. Great for paddlers of all ages. Basic camping equipment needed. The departure guideline time is 10am on day 1 and all your trip details will be confirmed by email. Price is per person for the 2 days including VAT and includes sit-on-top x1, paddle x1, buoyancy aid x1 and 1 set of paddling pants and top. Limited double kayaks are also available. All programme details are listed in our menu under "EVENT INFORMATION". |
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| Launch Location: | Kimmeridge Bay OR Ringstead Bay | ||||
| Price: | £149.99 Available dates quoted are from the launch date. | ||||
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Felixstowe Ferry to Orford Haven
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This trip is suitable for reasonably fit beginner/intermediate paddlers and includes your sit-on-top kayak, paddle and buoyancy aid.
We leave Felixstowe Ferry and paddle to the mouth of the River Ore, a total distance of approximately 9 nautical miles. We stop along the way for a snack on the beach and have lunch on one of the shoals at the river mouth. Then for a spot of playing in the small surf, perhaps joing a couple of seals frequenting the area before our return paddle to Felixstowe Ferry. Reasonable fitness is needed and basic rescue skills are helpful but not necessary - this is a Guided trip with a maximum of 12 paddlers. |
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| Launch Location: | Felixstowe Ferry | ||||
| Price: | £39.99 Includes sit-on-top & gear | ||||
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Introduction to Sea Kayaking
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If you want to know what Sea Kayaking is really all about and how to enter the sport, then this is the programme for you. One full day of theory and practical training covering boat & paddle dynamics, equipment, applied skills (paddle strokes) and rescue techniques.
This programme does what it says on the tin, it introduces participants to the sport of Sea Kayaking, providing a realistic view of the correct and necessary equipment to buy (without wasting money), where to get your equipment as well as training to develop skills to carry out basic manouvures in/on a kayak i.e. forward & backward movement, steering & control as well as sideways control of a kayak. This is a good preparation programme for the BCU Star 2 award. The programme takes place on calm, inland water at Alton Water Watersports Centre. The morning session is classroom based with applied skills being taught in the afternoon. The start guideline time is 10am and your booking will be confirmed by email. All programme details are listed in our menu under "EVENT INFORMATION". |
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| Launch Location: | Alton Water Watersports Centre | ||||||||||
| Price: | £99.99 Includes all equipment | ||||||||||
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Kayak Day Hire - 2 Days
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Enjoy the freedom of paddling where and when you choose to by hiring your kayak. Our boats are top quality Ocean Kayak Scupper Pros and included are your paddle and buoyancy aid with each boat.
We offer our customers a sliding scale of rates which heavily discounts the amount you pay per day, the more boats you hire. The listed price is for 2 DAYS HIRE all inclusive. |
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| Launch Location: | Chelmsford Premises | ||||
| Price: | £79.98 Per day | ||||
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Orford Haven Overnight Kayak & Camp
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An easy launch off the beach at Felixstowe Ferry and a little play around the shoals off the mouth of the Deben River if the conditions allow and then on to our campsite at Orford Haven.
Camp will be on the beach between Bawdsey and Orford Haven, a quiet and secluded spot for the night. We’ll have a ’white mans’ fire on the beach in the evening and a communial supper. We set off on the Sunday around 10am after a relaxed breakfast, heading back the way we came trying to co-incide our departure with the tides to make for easier paddling. A great local trip and camping experience with good company and great paddling. |
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| Launch Location: | Felixstowe Ferry, Ferry Road, Felixstowe, Suffolk, IP11 9RY | ||||
| Price: | £99.99 Includes your kayak, paddle & buoyancy aid | ||||
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OSEA Family Kayak Trip
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A 1 & a half hour trip through the Blackwater estuary in Essex for families with children from the age of ten (10) years.
Paddling west from OSEA LEISURE PARK and through the marina, with a short break. A guided tour with a flexible iteniary for families of any size, this trip is designed to be easy and relaxed for all. No experience or fitness needed. All equipment supplied including secure parking on site. There is an excellent restaurant and bar on site as well as a beautiful camping ground with traditional Tipee tents. Spend the night, enjoy a day out on the water paddling with your family and enjoy a good drink at the bar before turning in. Just turn up and off we go! The guideline time for departure of the first family trip is 10am and this will be finalised prior to the day dependant on the tides. All your programme details are listed in our menu under "EVENT INFORMATION". |
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| Launch Location: | Osea Leisure Park, Goldhangar, Maldon, Essex, CM9 4SA | ||||
| Price: | £19.99 This is a Guided trip. | ||||
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Osea Leisure Park to Maldon
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An easy 2-3 hour trip over 4 nautical miles, launching from OSEA LEISURE PARK and paddling along the pretty shoreline of the blackwater to Maldon. Here we land to enjoy a hot drink from the onshore cafe (when open) and enjoy the sites and sounds of the estuary.
Your kayak, buoyancy aid & paddle is included as well as secure parking and a hot shower is available upon our return. There is an excellent restaurant and bar on site as well as a beautiful camping ground with traditional Tipee tents. Spend the night, enjoy a day out on the water paddling with your family and enjoy a good drink at the bar before turning in. Just turn up and off we go! There is a 11% dsicount for all group bookings of 6 or more paddlers. Family groups of 4 or more enjoy a 10% discount on food at the Barge clubhouse. |
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| Launch Location: | Osea Leisure Park, Goldhangar, Maldon, Essex, CM9 4SA | |||||||
| Price: | £29.99 Includes kayak, buoyancy aid & paddle | |||||||
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| Price: | £300.00 Including VAT | ||||
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Sea Kayak Safety & Rescue
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A basic sea safety programme with the objective of providing participants with the basic skills to operate safely along the UK coastline as well as deal with any minor emergencies.
The programme is predominantly practical based focusing on rescue techniques, towing techniques and basic first aid and survival as well as calling in help. Discussion around ’green light, red light’ technique and evaluating the prevailing conditions as well as weather forecasts and ensuring adequate planning and contingency planning. A ’must do’ programme for anyone paddling along the UK coastline. And a lot of fun. The guideline start time is 10am and all your course details will be confirmed by email. This programme is suitable for novice and intermediate paddlers using either sit-on-top kayaks or sea kayaks. Best suited to sea kayaks. The programme is delivered in Kimmeridge Bay in Dorset on the following dates; 22nd May, 19th June, 24th July, 21st August, 25th September 2009 and can be ’bolted on’ to the 3 day Dorset Jurassic Coast Trip. All your programme details are listed in our menu under "EVENT INFORMATION". |
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| Launch Location: | Clacton-On-Sea OR Alton Water Watersports Centre | |||||||
| Price: | £99.99 All your programme details are listed in our menu under "EVENT INFORMATION". | |||||||
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Seal Colony Visit
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A 3-4 hour estuary paddle covering a total of 6 nautical miles to visit a wild seal colony through the backwaters of Walton-on-the-Naze. Shallow sometimes turbulant water with strong but manageable currents.
There is a restaurant with a bar on site and changing facilities and hot showers and secure parking is included in the price. Suitable for novice paddlers of average fitness. All equipment is provided - adults only. The departure guideline time is 10am. All your programme details are listed in our menu under "EVENT INFORMATION". |
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| Launch Location: | Titchmarsh Marina, Walton-on-the-Naze | ||||||||||
| Price: | £39.99 All equipment plus parking & showers | ||||||||||
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Shotley Night Trip
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A night paddle around Harwich harbour including Felixstowe - a short distance night paddle launching from Shotley Sailing Club. Suitable for beginner and intermediate paddlers, sit-on-tops and sea kayaks.
Launching from Shotley Sailing Club at sunset we paddle across to Harwich Harbour and the RNLI base there. We follow the coast around to the beach on the Harwich side and exit the Harbour around the sea wall. A short paddle down the coast to land on the beach near Dovercourt for a rest break and snack. We return via Felixstowe container terminal to watch the container ships being loaded up to 6 stories high. We finish at Shotley Marina around 3 hours from our launch. Includes sit-on-top, buoyancy aid & paddle. Sea Kayaks welcome. |
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| Launch Location: | Shotley Sailing Club, Ipswich, IP9 1PQ | ||||
| Price: | £39.99 Launch at 19H00 | ||||
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St Osyth Overnight Camp
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Launching from Brightlingsea Harbour, Essex, we follow the prevailing current either up the Colne to Wivenhoe where we stop off to wet our throats for a couple of hours or we paddle across to Mersea and up the Blackwater before making our way across the shipping channel to St.Osyth Beach for our overnight camp.
St.Osyth is a quiet beach backing onto protected Marshland. The beach is deserted as access is only on foot (and its a very long walk) or by small boat navigating the trechorous sand shoals. We spend a quiet evening around the camp fire before retiring to our cosy tents for a well earned nights rest. Breakfast in the morning and a leisurely set off for the return journey to Brightlingsea. Brightlingsea offers overnight parking, good pubs and restaurants with easy launch and landing options. The price is per person for the two days including the kayak, buoyancy aid, paddle & dry bags. Groups are limited to 8 paddlers with two Guides or in exceptional cases 12 paddlers and 3 Guides. The only thing we need is a good positive approach to the outdoors. Campers will need their tent, sleeping bag and basic cooking gear. Everything else is provided. This is the milder version of the 3 day Dorset ’Wild Camp’ adventure - a great way to be introduced to the outdoors wothout too much exertion. |
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| Launch Location: | Brightlingsea Harbour, CO7 0AP | ||||
| Price: | £99.99 2 Days & 1 night. Includes kaya, paddle, buoyancy aid & dry bags | ||||
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