Welcome to the ORCA Blog. Here we hope to keep you informed of how our courses are doing, and what we at ORCA are up to. If you would like us to publish any pics or info, just contact us.

Welcome to our Blog.. If you have any pic's you'd like us to put up, just send them in.. if they're decent, we'll post them.

We've just come across the website for the canadian canoe museum in Ontario, Canada. If you fancy a sit-down 'virtual tour', then take a look. There are some pretty inspirational artworks to gawp at..

Happy browsing! http://www.canoemuseum.ca/

Thanks to everyone who has been on a course this year. All courses went well despite the heavy rain on the River Runner. Steve and Dan made their 2nd trip out to Sweden in late September and have found a cracker of a trip, see our courses page for more info.
New for next year is our long awaited canoe building workshop, to be run in Keswick, so you can at last build your very own canoe.
Also congratulations to Paul Weller on his marriage to Claire back in August.

Tom and Nev ..Caledonian Canal. training complete!

Caledonian Canal '08

Crowded beach, Scotland Voyageur '07

Just sometimes you come accross something pretty awe inspiring.. Leatherback turtles are more common in U.K waters than you may imagine..

and sometimes you stuble across...

No blog complete without one.. Thailand ' 09

'Wind-down' after another day at the office..

Namibia '08 with Woodsmoke's 1st Bushman expedition

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Lake Malawi pics follow...

Those little black specks to Starboard..

This is what they are..

The welcome party

Intimidating locals..

They were ripe after 24 days..

Dinner on deck

Fetching floatation

That grey 'cloud' is actually Mozambiquen 'Lake Fly' and was 3 kms distant!

Lake Malawi, 40 mins before Steve's 1st scorpion sting!

Fish eye's view of the hull..

End of the road for 'Hippo Shock'

This expedition was inspired by Lauren, Dan's girlfried, and gave us a trip we'd never want to repeat... - in the best possible way! The sense of age-old village
communities was as strong as one could wish for, the meetings with the locals were always mutually intriguing, and the sheer scale of Africa was embodied in the gigantic, timeless landscapes.

Thank you to everyone who has been on a course this year. We shall get some pics up on this page as soon as we can. All courses went well despite the heavy rain on the River Runner. Steve and Dan made their 2nd trip out to Sweden in late September and have found a cracker of a trip, see our courses page for more info.
New for next year is our long awaited canoe building workshop, to be run in Keswick, so you can at last build your very own canoe.
Also congratulations to Paul Weller on his marriage to Claire back in August.
We are all now tidying up after the floods here. Thanks again for 2009 and see you on a course in 2010..............................................................................................................................................

We've just come across the website for the canadian canoe museum in Ontario, Canada. If you fancy a sit-down 'virtual tour', then take a look. There are some pretty inspirational artworks to gawp at..

Happy browsing! http://www.canoemuseum.ca/

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