{"id":2725,"date":"2017-02-13T08:30:04","date_gmt":"2017-02-13T08:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=2725"},"modified":"2017-02-12T21:38:04","modified_gmt":"2017-02-12T21:38:04","slug":"kayaking-on-loch-oich-in-the-great-glen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/2017\/02\/13\/kayaking-on-loch-oich-in-the-great-glen\/","title":{"rendered":"Kayaking on Loch Oich in the Great Glen"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Shipwrecks, castles and snow-covered mountains could all be seen yesterday as I joined other members of Inverness Canoe Club<\/a> on a paddling trip on Loch Oich. There were open canoes, sea kayaks and river kayaks all doing their own thing, and I joined the sea kayakers in a boat I had borrowed from Boots n Paddles<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We headed south from Bridge of Oich, enjoying an easy ride with the wind behind us and exploring the western shore at a leisurely pace.<\/p>\n

The Great Glen Water Park<\/a> kindly allowed us to have lunch inside at the park, which gave us chance to warm up before the rather more testing return journey.<\/p>\n

We were battling our way against a gusting force 4 wind now, which was hard work but, with a bit of technique coaching along the way, we slowly made our way north again, pausing for rest whenever we found a little bit of shelter.<\/p>\n

It was a fine winter’s day on the water and great to be out in the kayak again. Hopefully there’ll be more of this in 2017!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Shipwrecks, castles and snow-covered mountains could all be seen yesterday as I joined other members of Inverness Canoe Club on a paddling trip on Loch Oich. There were open canoes, sea kayaks and river kayaks all doing their own thing, and I joined the sea kayakers in a boat I had borrowed from Boots n […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4],"tags":[117,11,73,118,60,68],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5M0xs-HX","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2725"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2725"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2745,"href":"https:\/\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2725\/revisions\/2745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}