Enough with the Shark pictures already!

You may have received via email some pictures of sharks in the bay and the implication is that they were taken this week. Every so often someone pulls them out again and starts a little panic. Please be aware that they were taken a couple of years ago from a fishing boat that had actually lured the shark from quite far out by cleaning its catch.

You have probably seen the Orca and kayak video? This has been posted dozens of times on YouTube and if you have not seen it you must - click here . Alarming isn't it? Actually it's a documented fake but so well done that almost everyone who sees it is taken in.

If you're still scared of sharks then these will really blow your mind!

Epic sea kayak beats the surfskiers

Gregg Barton, Olympic champion and co-owner and co-designer of the Epic Kayaks, recently won his third Blackburn Challenge kayak race in a row. He was paddling the new Epic 18. Nothing amazing about that - except that he beat a field of surfskiers!

click here to read about it.

Friday 29th Moonlight Paddle

Moonlight Paddle
June Full Moon (a blue moon by the way as we've already had one full moon this month) paddle

See more pictures here

Also see Guido's report on the paddle including the man in the grey suit story.

Full Moon Paddle 30th and 1st

Well I have to say we had the most brilliant paddle on Wednesday - I'd even call it an Epic paddle. For two reasons: it was that fabulous and all seven paddlers on the trip, by sheer coincidence, were in Epics. We headed to the lighthouse and from there surfed the 1ft swells back to Seaforth from where Margaret was followed by a playful jumping seal all the way to Windmill Beach. Complete darkness fell as we began our return to Simon's Town and the best was yet to come as we entered a red tide area and all the way back our way was lit by the most beautiful phosphoresence. We didn't want it to end!

There is a Friday Full Moon Paddle with Coastal Kayak so call them if you want to join in.

Cape Point Sunday 27th May

A stunning winter's day paddle in Cape Town. Warm, no wind and flat calm seas at the put-in but big and choppy swells at Cape Point for the 15 paddlers who made the trip. For 5 or 6 of them it was their first time at the Point and they were "stoked" - that's Trish celebrating "losing her virginity". Note on the map of the route we took how it registers the little sidetrack into the cave.