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“This is the Sea” is now available as a digital download for the bargain price of under 6 Euros – just in time for Christmas!! I’m not sure how you wrap up a digital download, but you could always put the download information in an envelope for someone, or buy it for yourself – after all we should spoil ourselves at Christmas aswell!! Or perhaps you could download it and burn it to a DVD for someone? Then again, if you’d rather have the physical disc in it’s original cover with the disc artwork then you can buy them from the Cackle TV store, or from your local kayaking and outdoor shop. Remember you can save money if you buy more than 1 DVD. I’m interested in feedback about digital downloads. The recommended price seems a bit cheap to me, but then maybe it appeals to people who wouldn’t pay more for a physical DVD? Should I make the other DVDs available as digital downloads? What about selling individual films from the DVDs? For example I could sell the award winning film of my circumnavigation of New Zealand? This is part of “This is the Sea 4”, but I could offer just the NZ film for a lower price?

They say variety is the spice of life. On Saturday, Barry and I headed to the Wirral to catch up with his family and my sister, who was visiting the area. We went for a seapaddle out to Hilbre island at the mouth of the Dee Estuary – Barry’s local paddle when he lived on the Wirral. The tidal race out the back of the island was working well and we had a bit of a surf before having lunch on the island with some friends.

We headed back to North Wales and today joined John Domony and Gordon on a river paddle down the Seiont, a mostly grade 3 river which is right on our doorstep but which Barry and I haven’t done before. The level was high and we had to portage around one low bridge, but it was great fun and bouncy.

It’s been snowing on and off for the past week or two and yesterday afternoon I got out into the mountains for the first time this Winter. That’s the beauty of living in North Wales – we have sea, rivers and mountains right on our doorstep, which makes it possible to chose your poison depending on the weather and what you feel like.

Tara and I had a great walk up Y Garn and back down the Devil’s Kitchen. There was loads of snow and a bit of ice up top, and white-out conditions for the top 100-200metres. Map reading was quite tricky!! But we had a great day! Back to work today, before the weekend tomorrow!

posted by Justine Curgenven | 1:02 PM 

Last Saturday a windy forecast & big swell kept us from venturing onto the more exposed parts of the coast. Instead we opted for a ‘sheltered’ but longish paddle from Moel y Don on the Menai Straits, south and then out of the Straits to Lladwyn island. I’ve only paddled this stretch of coast once before and that was when I paddled around the whole of Anglesey in a day so I wasn’t really stopping to see the sights! A 30km round trip was enough on this day and we ended up returning practically in the dark. Barry’s godson Jake was visiting so he went in the double with Barry. The mountains of Snowdonia and the LLyn peninsula looked beautiful with a dusting of snow and I really enjoyed the different scenery and fresh crisp air!!

I tried out a Valley Aquanaut LV and Barry and I tried out Mitchell Paddles, which we liked.