Club members joined in the Paddle UK Big Paddle Clean Up on Sunday and collected rubbish from around the estuary and the Little Shore – which has recently been designated as bathing water. It wasn’t as bad as feared but there was still plenty to do.

In recent years the trip to the Falkirk Wheel in May has become an annual event. Open to all members of any ability and any type of craft the group paddles the Union Canal and camps near the Wheel. Robert Head made this great video: Steve Gibson took some photos

You are invited to take part in Coquet Canoe Club Annual Round the Island Race. Cost is £10 cash on the day, you can enjoy a trip around Coquet Island with an opportunity to win a trophy!

With the lighter nights club sessions at 6pm on Wednesdays have started again. Yesterday a small group went round Coquet Island in a fairly bouncy sea before practising rescues and self-rescues in the wave basin. There are also plans to start some gentle flat water paddling up the river through Warkworth on Wednesday evenings.

I’ve been a bit slow posting this one – it was two weeks ago that there were some decent conditions for a group to go round Coquet island. It was cold but sunny.

On Sunday the sea kayakers had a lot of fun surfing in the wave basin. Outside the harbour the swell was supposedly 2.2m – far too big for going out – but great for creating surf in the safer environment of the wave basin. The photos aren’t great because it’s hard to take photos while … Read more

The sea kayakers were able to get out on Sunday for the first time in a while. (Although they did manage a surfing session in the wave basin a couple of weeks ago.) A cold foggy start but the fog soon lifted and paddling warmed folks up. The sea was quite flat inside the harbour … Read more

Warden Gorge on the North Tyne is a challenging run that the more intrepid club members occasionally enjoy. No pictures while paddling for this one – they had to concentrate on staying safe!

Another run on the club’s favourite stretch of the Tyne