Twin Tays!

After a surprisingly small amount of faff at the shed, we were good to go. Euan, Charlie, Emma, Caity and myself set off to the Tay. However, we decided to try a new section (to me anyway), from Taymouth to Aberfeldy.

The get-on was mainly faff free and generally uneventful (aside from Euan giving the gatehouse staff an un-holy view). So we were off.

Getting on at the loch, and paddling under a bridge, we decided to practice some eddying....unaware that even the slightest breeze turned this arch into a horrific wind tunnel!

Realising our mistake we moved on, and approached the Chinese Bridge Rapid (the only one on this section). A wholly uneventful run of this led us to decide to run it again, and then head to a more interesting section.

At this point, we discovered we had made a fatal error....

This left me to run (quite literally) the shuttle from Grantully to the SCA get in, leaving time for Euan and Charlie to make what they believe is the first descent of one of the Tay tribs (hereby known as the Allt Cheuan).

Getting onto the river (once I had died of exhaustion a couple of times and realised that kayaking isn't really exercise), we carried on down the Tay, and did some more training.

As the Boat Breaker approached, we pulled over to the side so that Caity and Emma could get off and celebrate a trip with no swims.

This left Euan, Charlie and myself to run the slalom course and play at the bottom.

All in all, a highly successful trip:

No swims, 1 bow rescue and 1 renewed river roll.

However....one last bombshell struck:

Euan's left shoe was still at Taymouth. Gutted!