The PaddlerUK magazine July 2015 issue 3 | Page 37

We live in a world with everincreasing demands on our time,
constant bombardment of
information from every angle, and
the expectation that response to
messages / phone-calls / emails /
tweets should be instantaneous,
regardless of time or day sent.

So the new year’s resolution in the
Tootega and Silverbirch office was to do
something about it…

Start/finish

https://goo.gl/maps/keun4

Nothing huge and involved, that
would defeat the point. But
rather taking little opportunities
to tie in paddling trips with
delivery runs and meetings, and
perhaps one ‘night out’ a month
where we would down tools at
5pm and head off to explore
one of the endless paddling
options right on our own
doorstep, the only caveat being
we had to be back at work by
9am the next morning!
Once we started thinking about
trips we could do that were
‘within range’ for an evening
adventure we were staggered.
There are literally hundreds of
interesting paddles on our
doorstep here in Norfolk –
almost all of which we had
overlooked until now, and
several of which looked like
really interesting and varied trips.
One that really stood out for us
was a circumnavigation of Scolt
Head Island on the North
Norfolk Coast.

Norfolk

The ironic truth is running a kayak company
is no exception – there is always a reason to
work late, always a reason to spend another
evening working on a new design rather than
paddling what you already have, and courtesy
of a wonderful network of dealers around
the world – always someone you need to
call, regardless of the time of day or night.

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microadventure

It is easy to get trapped, trapped in an
endless cycle of work without time to
‘decompress’ trapped in a rut of being so
attached to your smart phone, tablet, or
computer that you never truly spend quality
time with friends and loved ones, and
trapped into the mindset that you don’t have
time to do anything about it.

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In itself a stunning paddle through a mixture of
remote salt marshes, little creeks, and open sea,
but one that could be made better by tying it in
with some seasonal foraging – surely the ideal
modern world ‘antidote’?
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