News from the Canoe Around Britain Team
4:48 pm

We landed in Scrabster after 11 days of some of the best canoeing I have ever experienced. The scenery has been spectacular, the weather gave us clear blue skies, sometimes with strong winds. At times we have felt very small and humble in huge racing swell with waves breaking. There were times I was just waiting for one of these to get us! And on a couple of occasions they did but with good buoyancy (we have 8 airbags and 3 barrels of various sizes in the boat) and Davis and I bailing, we quickly emptied and pressed on. Turning Cape Wrath was a major milestone in our journey so far. We had been informed that the military training range was in use until 11.30 and we couldn’t go round until then. The problem was the tide changed