The River Garry (near the small Highland village of Invergarry at the northern boundary of Lochaber) was scheduled for a release on Wednesday night. Just to make sure I wasn't going to turn up to a dry river I took the precaution of organising an afternoon's work up near Kyle so I could check out the river level on the way there, yep it was up and running. Good solid grade 3 and a bit.

I'd finished work and got back to the White Bridge in time to see folks packing up for the day. A quick text to the other guys then wait for them to turn up. We had the river to ourselves. A quick play about in the upper rapids and then we headed down stream to the play hole.

Lots of flat spins and a few good solid poundings later and the migdes had found us in the eddy. There are numerous surf waves and a couple of good pop-out spots further down to play about in as we made our way to White Bridge and off the river. Next release date should be 24th August. For more rivers in the area check out here.

If you've never tried it, but would like to give kayaking a go, find out more at http://www.canoescotland.com/ - Ken

posted by ocuk @ 10:46 PM