Planning Stages
The Caledonian Canal trip is one of the more ambitious trips the club has to offer. It involves
a paddle of 55 miles in 5 days across canals and open lochs where waves can grow to three or four
foot. The trip doesn't require people to be self sufficient as the group will camp each day on a
recognised campsite with the usual facilities.
Hopefully some of the information on this page will be of some use to those going :
Background Information
Schedule
Kit List
Rough Costing
Campsites
First half of the trip in pictures
Second half of the trip in pictures
Useful Links
The picture pages are there to give you an idea of what we'll be paddling through across
the whole trip.
What happened
The 2004 Tour of the Caledonian Canal has to go down in the club's history as one of the most successful trips ever.
With 12 paddlers paddling over 40 miles across 5 days it was one of the more ambitious trips as well. Over the next few pages
you should get an insight as to how the trip went.
Facts and Figures
- One Bus
- One Trailer
- Two new tyres
- Two Spot Welds
- One braked coupling
- Twelve Paddlers
- One Roadrunner
- Fifty Six Miles of Canal
- Four Lochs
- 900 Miles of Driving
- One confectionary revolution
- One midnight finish
- A lot of laughs!
In the beginning...
It took some time to get everyone packed up and ready to roll but we left eventually and headed for Fort William.
First Day of Paddling...
From Fort William to Gairlochy... and what a paddle, it took sooooo long!
Second Day of Paddling...
From Gairlochy to Laggan Locks... Across the first loch, Loch Lochy.
Third Day of Paddling...
From Laggan Locks to Fort Augustus... Across the second loch, Loch Oich, and more canal.
Fourth Day of Paddling...
From Fort Augustus to Inverfarigaig... The big one! Loch Ness, and half way across it.
Fifth Day of Paddling...
From Inverfarigaig to Inverness... The end of Loch Ness and the end of the paddle.
The long journey home...
A long trip home after a great week.
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