Month: July 2022
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Day 84: Sant’Irene-Torre Vecchia to Capo Vaticano
I’m currently sitting in a beach club sheltering from the sun, trying to remember what happened yesterday – it seems like ages ago! Oh yes, I remember….. Two men came down to the beach I’d slept on and told me it was owned by a resort, but they kindly let me stay on a deckchair…
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Day 83: Amantea to Sant’Irene-Torre Vecchia
Thank you to everyone who has donated to my A4D campaign. £360 is what it takes for A4D to keep a child with T1D alive for a year, so I’m really pleased to have raised almost £3600 – please help me hit £5k here. The sky was incredible last night. I woke up to a…
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Day 82: Diamante to Amantea
The coastline is now a continuous pebbly beach with a backdrop of mountains. I wasn’t exactly excited at the prospect of paddling today. It feels predictable that nothing very exciting will happen, and that it will be hot and tiring, lonely and boring. I’ve said before, doing this adventure was a decision from the heart,…
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Day 81: Port di Maratea to Diamante
Even though I’m further south, the landscape is greener, less parched. The mountains are covered with trees, the coast lined with luscious gardens, thick lawns spilling down to the water’s edge. The sea doesn’t get much flatter than this. Unfortunately a headwind picked up, so I stopped for lunch in Scalea next to an old…
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Day 80: Policastro to Porto di Maratea
This is the last canoe club for some distance, so I made the most of it and had a relaxed morning. Walking in to green grocer I picked up some courgette and tomatoes and the owner, a friend of Mariano’s, gave me a pile of grapes, peaches, oranges and bananas! I got on the water…
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Day 79: Acciaroli to Policastro
The day began with a hot, flat slog across the bay to Cape Palinuro, but I had faith the wind would start blowing. I’d just had a swim when a swordfish leapt from the water in front of my boat. It kept jumping and I managed to get a video of this amazing creature. I…
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Day 78: Spineta to Acciaroli
I prefer to write in the morning and then paddle, but it’s getting so hot around midday that I decided to do a split day. A cool, refreshing wind was blowing from the north and once I’d crossed the bay, it was downwind time. Small, steep waves suit this boat best, it takes less energy…
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Day 77: Praiano to Spineta
The storm blew away the heat from the air, the new day dawning clean and cool. I spent the first couple of hours surfing the washes of tourist boats along the Amalfi coast and paddled until a stiff headwind picked up. Resting on a little beach near Cetara I met a Slovenian family who gave…
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Day 76: Capri to Praiano
Thank you to everyone who has donated on my just giving page – we’re over £3000 now. It takes £365 to keep a child with T1D alive for one year in SE Asia so just giving £20 will make a real difference to someone’s life (it’s actually a matter of life or death). At one…
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Day 75: Posillipo (Naples) to Capri island
There was a lot of chat about what route to take to Capri. Naples is one of the busiest harbours in the world, and some people were worried I’d get in trouble with the coastguard, so said I should hug the coast. At one stage I was going to have a support boat and paddler,…