Issue 57 Summer 2014
meal, all for €140pp. This certainly put it up to any LivingSocial deal I have seen recently… I joined my fellow paddlers- Michael Carroll, Sennan O’Boyle, Lonan Byrne and Tom Ronayne who had just returned from their personal paddle trip and spent the entirety of dinner tickling our taste buds for the weekend to come. Afterwards we hopped over to St Eugene’s Hall, to see the official presentations. Over the course of the weekend we heard from experienced and renowned paddlers, Des Keaney, Robert Livingston, Mike McClure, Dave Walsh, and Jim Kennedy as they regaled us with slideshows and talks of their trips from around the world, Vancouver Island, Cape Horn, Corsica and more… On Saturday morning, we got organised for our trips for the day, kayaks on trailers and bodies on buses. We were transported to each of the different venues, with three groups (Tide Races, Navigation & Techniques) heading to a wee fishing village off Glengad Head. I joined some friends from Mid Ulster Canoe & Kayak Club and Sperrin Paddlers to do the Navigation class, hosted by Mike McClure. He was very helpful, making it easy to point us in the right direction and as the class hugged the coastline navigating their way to Malin Head—‘keep Ireland on your left’ seemed to be the consensus.
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