Now on facebook too

Hey there..... theres now a Kayak south facebook page.....feel free to leave comments throughout the trip.
Simon.

A poem, a siren song or a calling.

There are many words that capture my calling towards the sea and my restlessness when im land locked but Pablo captures it quite perfectly.

THE SEA
Pablo Neruda, On the Blue Shore of Silence

I need the sea because it teaches me, I don’t know if I learn music or awareness, if it’s a single wave or its vast existence, or only its harsh voice or its shining suggestion of fishes and ships. The fact is that until I fall asleep, in some magnetic way I move in the university of the waves.
It’s not simply the shells crunched as if some shivering planet were giving signs of its gradual death; no, I reconstruct the day out of a fragment, the stalactite from a sliver of salt, and the great god out of a spoonful. What it taught me before, I keep. It’s air ceaseless wind, water and sand.
It seems a small thing for a young man, to have come here to live with his own fire; nevertheless, the pulse that rose and fell in its abyss, the cracking of the blue cold, the gradual wearing away of the star, the soft unfolding of the wave squandering snow with its foam, the quiet power out there, sure as a stone shrine in the depths, replaced my world in which were growing stubborn sorrow, gathering oblivion, and my life changed suddenly: as I became part of its pure movement.

Just Giving

I was told the just giving info doesnt come up on the mobile page heres a screen shot to help people along. X

Less than 8 weeks to go!!!

The route.

https://mapsengine.google.com/map/edit?mid=zVubbNzW31Vw.k2duznilU898

A rest, a romance and a realisation

Wow! What a week!!!! Absolutely no kayaking whatsoever. Although what I have done is gone and got engaged. A visit to Andalucia and the 15th century town of Ronda led to a stunning view, a kayaker on one Knee (Bit too like open boating for me to do it more than once) and a teary girlfriend. ....she said yes so I assume they were happy tears....

    I also thought about what I'm doing and in particular a phrase that pings around my head an awful lot  GLOBAL LOCAL  this phrase is a lynch pin to my journey, by thinking and acting localy you have a global impact. The money raised for MCS will have both local and global impact so please remember to donate.
  I will be paddling both the Severn and Thames Estuaries, even if you live in a town or City your litter on the street regularly courses through storm drains and culverts into rivers and eventually estuaries and then into the oceans, please dont think MCS only helps those that live near the sea their work helps us all I hope my efforts highlight this.

The new business cards

Thanks to Inventive Solutions for these an amazing gifted group of people. You've made my day!