Product Description

At last, here it is ...Scotland's first guidebook for sea kayakers wishing to explore its amazing coastline and magical islands. It brings together a selection of fifty great sea voyages around the mainland of Scotland, from the Mull of Galloway in the SW to St Abb's Head on the east coast, as well as voyages in the Western Isles, ranging from day trips to three day journeys. Illustrated with superb colour photographs and useful maps throughout, it is a practical guide to help you select and plan trips. It will provide inspiration for future voyages and a souvenir of journeys undertaken. As well as providing essential information on where to start and finish, distances, times and tidal information, the book does much to stimulate and inform our interest in the environment we are passing through. It is full of facts and anecdotes about local history, geology, scenery, seabirds and sea mammals. A fascinating read and an inspirational book.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #15830 in Books
• Published on: 2005-01-28
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 272 pages

Customer Reviews

really informative reading
I bought this book in order to assist with route planning kayak trips around the isle of Skye and maximise the few days I had. I have paddled for a few years mainly in the South West but had never paddled in Scotland.

It is really easy to read and interpret the useful facts and figures contained within it. One of its best feature is the quick reference map of all the west coasts best kayak trips identified with a numberd spot on the map making it really easy to pick out where you want to go and look that route up directly.

Other really useful features.
All routes are graded in difficulty / distance.
Loads of useful tidal and current information.
each route has a detailed colour map and plan making it easy to follow and lists the relevant OS map for that area.
Lots of other local facts and figures and beaching spots to keep you amused on your journey.

Top production. Well worth a read if your planning trips in this area and are not familiar with local hazzards or scenary. It helped me maximise my trips. I saw loads of amazing sights and had some great wildlife encounters (Seals, porpoise, Sea otters and millions of seabirds of all shapes and sizes).

How soon can I get away?
This is a good all round guide with trips graded from one to three (one the least difficult). Although some of the trips are covered in other books (at least in part) it is still worth having the book for trip planning and using this book along side other guides such as "Scottish Canoe Touring" and "Scottish Canoe Classics". Using the books together should allow some sort of trip no matter what the weather - if the sea state is not as calm as one would like there could well be a loch or river trip near by that would still run.

Better maps would help as would O/S map numbers.

This book does make you want to drop everything, pack the car and head for the sea.