Coasteering with Alpkit

On bank holiday Monday Claire and I had a great day out at Porth Dafarch with the Alpkit, staff, family and friends. They were even nice enough to buy me lunch after, what a good day.

Me briefing my gang.

Me waiting for my group to come and join me.

Nefyn Coasteering.

I was lucky enough to escape the office again today to find a beautiful sunny day at Porth Dinllaen. The day was then spent coasteering with Simon and Mandi before returning to Llanberis.

Simon in a classic jumping pose.

The climb out at the end.

Sunday Soundboy Swim

Last Sunday managed to get out coasteering at Porth Dafarch with a load of my DJ and Sound System friends which was good to be doing some outdoor stuff with people I usually only spend nights out with.

Ebony pondering one of the jumps.

Callum taking a leap.
The gang heading home.

New website gone live.

We have been working on the new activities website http://www.adventuresinwales.co.uk/ for a while now but yesterday it went live. Thanks very much to Pete at http://chargingarc.com/ for the design of the site and Chris at http://www.freerangedevelopers.co.uk/ for making it work.

Busy Easter Holidays.

Not really a holiday as I have been working but we are now coming out of a busy set of Bank Holidays. We have had loads of guests staying with us at Boulder Adventures which has been nice. Not run as many activities as I would have hoped but this does mean I have had time to get out and have some fun of my own. After a day’s kayaking with a group of air cadets managed an evening climb in the Llanberis Pass with Will. Also managed a trip out mountain biking over Betws way with Simon from the Dol peris, Pete from V12 and Sue from Joe Brown. We had an early off which meant the ride was cut short, regardless of this it was worth it to get out with a good gang. This Sunday just gone the Boulder staff decided we were bored in the office so went out for a coaster at the range the pictures are below.

Me at the Range

Claire at the Range
Kelly at the Range

Claire again

2011 Adventure Leaflets

The 2011 activity leaflets arrived in the office yesterday and are already making there way out around North Wales.

Birthday Coasteering.

This weekend I had some friends visiting from Liverpool to go coasteering to celebrate Janine’s 30th. Anglesey was catching a big swell from the south west so we headed off to Morfa Nefyn to swim with seals and find calmer waters. Lots of swimming, jumping and laughing followed.

Everyone busy climbing up to one of the jumps.

Dragging ourselves out of the sea.

Another leap.

One of the seals that was following us.

All the photos from Will, thanks.

Splash, brrrrrrr!

I have been looking forward to coasteering starting off this year and Thursday was the day. Claire, John and I met our group at the water sports centre to get kitted up then headed across a rather murky Anglesey towards Holyhead. Although we had a cold northerly wind to contend with we managed to stay in the wind shadow of the cliffs for most of the couple of hours we were out which meant no shivers until right at the end, two wetsuits each helped as well.

The sun is back.

Summer seems to be here again after having a break for August. This was great as it coincided with a day’s coasteering I was running for the RAF. What a great group to work with as we managed to get loads done covering a massive distance with plenty of swimming as it was such a still day.

The group climbing up to the jumps.

The view down the headland at Nefyn Golf Course.

It was also great that it was such a nice weekend as I was spending the Saturday night camping up in Yorkshire for my brothers stag do. Once the coasteering was finished it was back home shower, change vans and a four hour drive to the home of Black Sheep Ale, Masham. I think you can take a fairly good guess as to the events proceedings; needless to say the gang had late breakfast on Sunday before we all departed. This made for a good nights drinking for me, a good day of quad biking, brewery tours and drinking for the rest.

The Black Sheep Ale.

Unfortunately there is a downside to the nice weather as it seems like the toxic blue green algae in Llyn Padarn may benefiting from the sunshine after giving the impression that it was starting to disappear. This problem of the algae first came to light in June of this year and three months on there still seems to be no conclusive answers as to what has caused the problem. I do know however that is having a noticeable effect on local business and residents. This morning I have had a meeting with Alun Ffred Jones the local AM to express my concerns and hope to hear more from him soon.