You know I love working with Oceanwide Expeditions who operate our expedition cruises around the Scottish Islands, in Antarctica and in the Arctic. But sometimes they do drive me dotty! I got an email yesterday telling me about a new opportunity to go kyaking in the Arctic in August. Now if they'd told me that earlier we could have put it in our newsletter but by the time the next one goes out it will be too late. I'll try to get the info posted on the website but that's a bit of a problem on account of the fact that I leave for South Africa on Monday and have a million and one things to do before I go.
I've only tried kyaking once and I loved it. It was in the Galapagos and I went out with a fellow-passenger who was very experienced in the art and who taught me the basics which I took to like a fish to water! Since then the opportunity simply hasn't arisen. Much as I'd love to nip up to Longyearbyen 
and paddle around with the possibility of close encounters with polar bears and walrus and so on, the voyage starts the day after the Bird Fair finishes which means I'd have to miss the last day at Rutland. That can't happen as that's the day that the draw will be made to find out who has won two places on our 21st birthday expedition cruise around the Scottish Islands in 2009. (By the way - tickets are £10 each and proceeds will go to the BirdFair Project.)
Now if you aren't going to be at the Bird Fair and fancy kyaking in Spitsbergen, give us a call and we'll let you have the details. I've got to work out the prices - it's all in euros - but hope to have that done before I leave on Monday.
The trip will take me to Cape Town and then on the Royal Mail Ship to St Helena where we stop for just over a week before continuing to Ascension Island. As I may have mentioned before (probably ad nauseum) I really love this trip and I'm looking forward to it. But much remains to be done before I leave so I'd bet stop blogging!
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