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>\nWe 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":"
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