Trouble to get there Eleven paddlers headed off to the Riverland for a 3 day / 2 night relaxing car-camping exploration of the creeks around Katarapko. Berny arrived there first, but found the access road blocked due to flooding. After a frantic phone call with the Parks Board, a different route was recommended, which was […]
At 10am on Oct 13, Anne and Simon Langsford started 8 boats from the makeshift start/finish line between the beach and a yellow channel marker near the Garden Island Boat Ramp. The course was anti clockwise heading up Barker Inlet to the cutting and then out onto Port River and through the North Arm back […]
The trip was listed as a leisurely paddle and that’s what we did. Anne, Simon, Peter C, Peter D, Phil, Abelardo and Mark set off from the Garden Island boat ramp around 10am to paddle around Torrens Island. The tide was suitable to paddle through the shallow cutting at the northern end of the island. […]
The crossing of Backstairs Passage from Cape Jervis to Penneshaw and return on Saturday 25th and Sunday 26th May really achieved it’s main goals- a challenging paddle with a great camp at the end. The trip was also part of the Sea Leadership Program conducted by Paddle SA Education/Phil Doddridge. Greg A and Hugh Mac […]
Charlie, Mark B, Abelardo, Mark L and Warwick joined Anne and Simon for a paddle. We launched at Myponga Beach and headied south towards Carrickalinga. The sea conditions were perfect – clear water to observe the variety of sea weeds, virtually no wind and flat seas. We had a casual paddle along the rocky […]
Michael, Pavel, Terry and Warwick joined Anne for some rolling and rescue training at West Lakes. After some introductory exercises to limber up on the grass we took to the water armed with paddle floats and lots of courage. Starting in the small white-water kayak it wasn’t long before the paddle floats were removed and […]
Preparations and launch After last year’s Lindsay Island trip was aborted due to flooding, we decided to have another attempt. We wanted to see what damage the floods had done. An early start on Easter Friday went better than expected. The traffic was quiet, and we made good time to the meeting point at the […]
This year’s Nagambie Canoe Polo Summer Series competition, held at the Nagambie Lakes Regatta Centre, attracted players from Adelaide Canoe Club as well as players from other S.A. clubs, Victoria, Queensland, New South Wales and the ACT. There were five teams in the Social division, in which the SA Masters team competed, four teams in […]
Monday Monday 5th February we set off from the beach near the Coffin Bay Caravan Park. A 9 knot south easterly wind made the sea choppy with occasional waves washing sideways over our kayaks. The Brothers Islands gave us a short respite before we crossed to Eely Point. Then along the sheltered cliffs to our […]
Eleven ACC members, Greg Watts, Steve Carter, Kathleen Shorter, Charlie and Marina Walker, Anthony Aardenburg and Bella Kosterman, Simon and Anne Langsford, Scott Polley and Steve Wild together with friends Charlie and Heather Yeatman from NSW and Clay Hunter and his boys Asher and Tom from Victoria met at the white water course alongside Breeze […]
