2025 our team headed to the Isle of Lewis. The Northern Island of the Outer Hebrides. Parts are very wild and hard to get to by truck and trailer to explorer by sea kayak. Had a few days of lower winds and other days were full Gale. Did the best we can....
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Scotland 2024 The Roof and Northeast
In 2024 our team explored a lot of the North and East coast. Ducking and diving storms and teasing tides in the Pentland Firth. Awesome geo's and caves!
Barra Expedition, Southern Outer Hebrides. Scotland
Iceland Pandemic Expedition 2021
In August 2021 the only place to travel to was Iceland under the pandemic rules. All of the testing requirements and unstable weather window certainly added to the logistics planning to pull off an amazing sea kayaking expedition trip.  Iceland Kayak Waveology...
Shetland Islands. Where The North Sea and North Atlantic Meet
Shetlands Geology is giant jig saw puzzle that has been assembling for over hundreds of millions of years. Four huge blocks of earths continents have collided and then pulled apart again. Igneous rocks, sedimentary rocks, and metamorphic rocks all exist here in the...
Its A Wrap! 2019 Autumn Gales
Rhythms of the Ocean https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-VeIjpnWEI See you next year for the 12th year of the Autumn Gales. Dates are October 30 - November 1, 2020. Registrations and details will be live mid summer 2020. Stay in touch with the Gales event. ...
Parry Glaciers, SW Tierra del Fuego, Chile. January 2017 (Updated)
This journey to the Southern reaches of Southern America, Tierra Del Fuego was certainly exploring at its best and we were the first BCU coaches from America and even maybe Great Britain to help and work with the native people of Tierra Del Fuego to build up their sea...
Waveology’s International Expedition Schedule. 2020. (UP DATED)
Why We Explorer? "Exploration Means creative thinking, decision making, working with complicated emotions like fear, insecurity, joy, excitement, passion, failure and success." In short, Exploration is representative of the things that make us human. As a British...
Irelands South West Coast. Stunning. July 2018
Back in early July 2018. Kayak Waveology International brought six of our long term performance paddling clients to the South West coast of Ireland. The exposed County Kerry area of Irelands SW coast was such a stunning place to paddle on the sea. With six days on the water explorering all of the nooks and crannies we could get our selves into. Yes, we were very lucky with the weather and our timing. “Once in a generation weather” the locals would tell use.
We spent 3 days South of Dingle Bay. With it massive sea cliffs, tons of chubby sea birds and caves galore, and even made it out to the great Skellig Michael off shore islands.
Skellig Michael in target
Caves, Lots of caves
This why you practice rocky landings in the BC Advanced Sea Kayak Leader course (BCU 5 Star Sea). Yes, this happened at least twice a day. There were no beaches around. No we know why Ireland is one of the toughest circumnavigations to do. There are many miles of exposed coast line, almost the whole West coast. Makes you really apricate the safe landings and harbors you do find..
The second grouping of 3 days were spend explorering and wild camping on the Blasket islands, North of Dingle Bay. Again very impressive pointy bits of off shore islands to check out. Tearaght island is the furthest West of all the Blasket Islands. With a very hard to build cliff bound light house and a tide race arch cutting the island in half a the water level.
Tide race arch! Well this was a first. Surfing in a South direction on standing waves to make your way against a few knots of current running North through the arch. Just a surreal thing to experience.
Blasket Islands sun set. Each evening wild camping was just grand. Everyone was just chillin and enjoying the views at the foot of the tents.
Friendly natives! These grey seals were very curious creatures and great picture posers.
Thanks for reading. If you want to find out where we are headed next year in 2019, get in touch at www.kayakwaveology.com and follow out calendar. Humm, Shetland islands.
