index.php?option=com_wordpress A blog dedicated to Kayaking in West Cork Wed, 04 Aug 2010 19:15:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The things I do for Jim Kennedy! The latest one being an interview about Atlantic Sea Kayaking "as Gaeilge" for TG4. Actually, it was kind of enjoyable, and it will be only a few seconds of TV time - so don't miss it - Thursday 19th August at 8.30pm. The program ... http://www.atlanticseakayaking.com/feilte-writes-maria-kennedy/ Hi all , Jim Kennedy here www.atlanticseakayaking.com I run kayaking trips most nights so I am used to the night sky. Tonight I was on the water and looking SW at about 10.55 pm as what I thought was the ISS passing by from the SW and heading NE. As I have seen it ... http://www.atlanticseakayaking.com/147/ I thought I saw the Ghost of Marco Polo last week . We boated together along the canals of Venice. That is what travelling does to me . I was taking part in an amazing event called the Vogalonga   http://www.vogalonga.com/eng/index_ing.asp What a fantastic day ..  I would highly recommend it .. I stayed in Bibione ... http://www.atlanticseakayaking.com/136/ An Irish radio Guru died a few days ago, very suddenly . Alone .. I hope it was quick for him .  Some day I loved him , Some days I hated him .. His name Gerry Ryan . He certainly upped the bar in Irish broadcasting . A friend once said ... http://www.atlanticseakayaking.com/so-what-if-we-die/ The sun that is . It was definitely here yesterday . cant see it anywhere to day . Now where did it go .?  For any of you who were visitors to Connollys of Leap. Paddy passed on a few days ago . What a great family and soo brave . ... http://www.atlanticseakayaking.com/and-then-there-was-none/ Yes it is a bird rare in Ireland by all accounts .. Came across one yesterday . I believe we now have 4  in West Cork . The invasion is on . http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/10/Eurasian_Spoonbill_%28Platalea_leucorodia%29_at_Bharatpur_I_IMG_5670.jpg EART HOUR. At 8:30pm this Saturday, March 27, millions of people around the globe will turn their lights off ... http://www.atlanticseakayaking.com/euro-asia-spoon-bill/ Poor Scottish kid got drowned here a few days ago made me think how fragile us humans are .. I see the whales are being attacked again what a disgrace, See http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/nature/whaling-the-great-betrayal-1925387.html    Tell the world . I have just come back from a coaching course in Dublin .   I am glad ... http://www.atlanticseakayaking.com/march-is-almost-over/ Yesterday I was travelling down our hill at great speed in my kayak . A culture shock ahead as I travel to  Baja in Mexico . I heard from a friend in Monterey that the Grey Whales are heading down there in great numbers at the moment . We are about ... http://www.atlanticseakayaking.com/from-the-sublime-to-the-ridiculous-by-plane/ Oscar Wilde has discovered me or should I say we have met up .. I have been give the entire works of Oscar Wilde as  a present.  Every time I read some of it , it is as if his spirit is there next to me .. I find it ... http://www.atlanticseakayaking.com/frozen-ireland/ Leonard Cohen and Liam Clancy , Tom Waites. James Taylor, Donovan,  Jonie Mitchell , Bono , Sonny Condell the philosophers of our time .  Lucky enought to be able to say in Music what a lot of us are thinking . Steinbeck, Yeats, Hemmingway. Oh so many of them out there. The ... http://www.atlanticseakayaking.com/life-moves-on/