Everything is relative, but this weekend will feel pretty warm for Sea Kayaking In Scotland in December. All the rivers are up and if you have a shuttle bunny the Rannoch Moor crossing would be great. The cottages below are available in sunny weem near Aberfeldy. Great drying rooms excellent sheltered touring kayaking on some wonderful Lochs.
Still some availability Christmas, New Year & January. Short stay
If you think its hard having the kids home for the holidays, this is a floating village, including school.
Look far right on this page to see the link to the Sea Kayak Routes page. The aim is to give you some ideas about what there is to do in the area. We will update the ones we have already posted as well as post new ones. Remember if you are not sure if you are up to a route then talk to others about it or just hire one of the local guides. oban sea kayaking guides.
We will also post lots about Watersports, Boating and other Adventure Activities in Oban in other areas of the Blog. For activities in Aberfeldy or Pitlochry and Perth and Crieff go to Adventurers Escape.
Light winds and clear skies have given the opportunity for great “stay dry” sea kayaking trips in Scotland. The Oban area and west coast is excellent at the moment.
Snow capped Ben Cruachan hangs over Oban by National Kayak School.
Lots of choice.
Essential you check the timing. Often it looks like its not going to be a good day in the general synopsis and then the wet weather moves through quicker than expected and at least part of the day ends up superb.
The BBC website can show the cloud moving across which is really useful, but the general 5 day for Oban is just too general to be meaningful . Accu Weather for the Firth of Lorn is perhaps more useful for the Sea Kayaker. For the long range check out the wetter centrum 9 day forecast. This can also be found via the surf index Coldswell . This forecast gives a good idea of the temperature of the air mass thats going to affect us, which for 9 days time is more realistic than most other projections. Also on the coldswell site are links to various surf forecasts or at least swell forecasts. These can be fairly accurate for a few days hence as the waves may already have been generated somewhere off in the blue yonder and are already heading our way. One of the most popular seems to be Magic Seaweed. There are others that some people love, but this may be because they are the most optimistic.
I have yet to understand why the Metcheck forecast for our white water kayaking base in Aberfeldy is always 5-10 degrees too cold.
So its forecast to be High pressure for the next week or so and then moving towards a northerly damp airstream ie snow. Until then it looks like West is Best so Sea Kayak Oban.
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Its pretty hard to not be Eco Friendly by Sea Kayaking. We think at Sea Kayak Oban we can really push the boat out with the green emphasis.
Catch the Bus or Train to Oban and just walk around the Harbour and we’re there. If you do come by car then try and share with another customer.
Its a Very Old refurbished building using as much recycled components as we could realistically manage to produce a modern business.
Our vehicles (when we use them are very economical & regularly tuned).
We recycle almost all the rubbish we produce.
We heat the building using woodburners.
Our staff are all trained in minimum disturbance of all the wildlife we come across.
Often on our trips we spend some time collecting rubbish and at certain times we will give free Sea Kayak Rental to anyone who fills the bag with shoreline rubbish.
We are constantly reviewing our energy use and finding new ways to be greener still.
No Trace camping on Sea Kayaking Eco tours
Time to get the sea kayaking maps and charts out and plan ahead for the coming year.
Great day out on and off the water in Oban. It really was a New Years Day to remember. Superb views if you get up high with just a sprinkling of snow on the tops.
We have had more suppliers sign up with Sea Kayaking Oban “its getting better all the time” Beatles quote.
Well we had a superb day out on the water yesterday demoing boats that we hope to be selling at Sea Kayaking Oban. Started off super cold but the wind dropped and the sun prevailed and it was yet another glorious day.
Sorry no photos this time.
We have various Sea Kayaks for Sale inc Explorer, Explorer HV, Necky Sea Kayak Lochsha , Pyranha Orca 14,
email us at Info@nationalkayakschool.com
Sea Kayaking in Scotland with National Kayak School in Oban.
Check out the 2nd hand sea kayaks for sale on the 2nd hand kayaks page.
The all orange and all red kayaks are the Orca 14 (bulkhead and rear hatch but only pillar bouyancy in the front) and the all white sea kayak is the Explorer for sale. The Sea kayak in the foreground is a Prijon Seayak. New Explorers are avilable from Karitek near Ayr. We also have 2nd hand Explorer Hv and almost new Explorer LV.
NB National Kayak School also runs Sea Kayaking Courses in Edinburgh , Aberdeen , Inverness and elsewhere. check out
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The River Awe on a big day in about 1980 on an Edinburgh School kayak course. For Sea Kayak Courses in Oban and White Water Kayak Courses on this and other rivers in the UK go to “National Kayak School”