OK, I’m behind on the talk reports – here’s stuff about the last-talk-but-one – if anyone would like to write up about the more recent one, Doug Ammons, please go ahead and hit “Write new post” – cheers, xh.
David’s talk, entitled “One Thing Leads To Another”, was about the various boating adventures he’s had, since signing up for the first BUKE expedition, in 2005. The way he tells it, him and his brother wrote in for a lark, and then ended up “picked” for the expedition. The result: a couple of months exploring in Kyrgzystan, nice.
An amazing place. We learned to be afraid of donkeys, and afraid of both alchoholic and non alchoholic drinks, but also to be really impressed by how kind and welcoming folk in Kyrgystan were towards some funny looking and funny smelling paddlers who just turned up in their backyard.
The water also looked very fun indeed. There was a mellow video, with a Kyrgyzstani song in the background, and a more frenetic video, with high-speed mad music in the background – both v nice and captured the mood of the place and the paddling.
Then we heard about more recent trips – Morocco, as passengers of a minibus more suited to city-tours for the silver-haired, struggling up the roads to some spectacular gorge-enclosed rivers, India with some great boating and some frisbee-ing with monks, Italy for some rather steep creeking, and so on. Lovely.
This talk gave a great flavour of where paddling can take you, and what happens if you choose to say “Yes” everytime you get an opportunity to go boating. Exactly the thing, thanks for a great talk David, and cheers Mary for organising.
The next two talks are:
Wed 1st April: “LUCC goes boating” – by various club members – more info soon – includes minitalks on (probably): Alps, Norway, “Swims of 2008″, Slovenia, Wales, Scotland and Blighty.
A date early next term (details soon): “White Water Madagascar” – by Nic Pearce – tales of adventure, exploration, and bush babies.
Both of these will be top – as usual, tickets on the door, 8pm McAusland lounge, head to the bar on the ground floor first to obtain some liquid sustenence.
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