We need your help – what should we call our next sea kayak guidebook? Our longest title is South West Sea Kayaking, Isle of Wight to the Severn Estuary. That’s a maximum number of twenty-three characters in the title and around thirty-five in the subtitle. Could you come up with the title for our next volume in the series to be announced? A copy of the book to whoever pens the title!
What’s the book? You’ll be excited to hear that it’s a guidebook to the stomping grounds of Douglas Wilcox, who’s exemplary photography you will no-doubt be familiar with. From Ardnamurchan point to the Solway Firth, Douglas’ book will cover in detail what was touched upon in Scottish Sea Kayaking, Fifty Great Sea Kayak Journeys. That book contained treasures from all around the Scottish coastline, but now we are able to divulge the bountiful sea kayaking waters of the entire Scottish coastline beginning with three forthcoming volumes, Northwest Highlands, Outer Hebrides and Douglas’ book.
Can you encapsulate Douglas’ book with a fitting title?
Sea Kayaking: The Summerlaird coast.
Greetings everyone, just in case you think there is a glitch in my geography, the above photo has been chosen simply because it is a nice view! As the sharp eyed will realise, it is the lovely Isle of Eigg which is well north of Ardnamurchan and so outwith the scope of the book!
Douglas
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A cracking shot of my ‘patch’
A title which covers your ‘patch’ - well that’s a challenge!
West Highlands, Clyde & Solway
Inner Hebrides, Clyde & Solway
Argyll, Clyde & Solway Sea Kayaking
Mmmm…tricky
South West Scotland Sea Kayaking - Ardnamurchan to the Solway
Sea Kayaking Argyll and the South West - from Ardnamurchan to the Solway
Paddling the sticky oot bits- Mull it over Ard.
From the UKseakayakguidebook thread:
Jon Wood
Views from the Wilcox Weather Window
tpage
Sea Kayak Dalraidia, Scotland’s ancient southwest kingdom
lg18
Sea kayak Argyll and southwest Scotland
ChrisS
Scotland West Coast Sea Kayaking (South) - Ardnamurchan Point to Solway Firth
Jim
Sea Kayak Scotland, from the wicker man to the sea hounds via the hag and the grey dog
ian johnston
South West Scotland - Fifty Great Sea Kayak Luncheons
geyrfugl
Inside Passage South - Carlisle to Kilchoan
More from UKseakayakguidebook
Pete
South West Scotland- Dougie’s Delights!
MarkR
West Coast Sea Kayaking I, II and III
Hmmm … dividing the Scottish coast up into a sub-series of four books would be a real possibility … but wouldn’t fit in so well with our coverage of the rest of the UK coastline (the naming for England is already getting difficult!)
Sea Kayak SW Scotland, Solway Firth to the Inner Hebrides. 21, 34 characters
Scotland Sea Kayaking, Solway Firth to the Inner Hebrides. 21, 34 characters
Scottish Sea Kayaking, Solway Firth to the Inner Hebrides. 21, 34 characters
Gosh some cracking suggestions!
This part of Scotland was the first to be called Scotland, after it was colonised by the Scotti from Ireland. It was also the route through which Scotland was converted to Christianity by a series of saints: St Ninian, St Columba, St Marnock, St Cormac, St Molaise, St Kenneth etc. (All with their islands!)
I wondered about:
Isles and Firths of the Saints - exploring SW Scotland by sea kayak
Douglas
More suggestions from UKSKGB:
ian johnston
South west Scotland - Dalriada
North West Scotland - a’ Ghaidhealtachd
The Hebrides - Eilean nan Siar
janet brown
Scottish Skies
TechnoEngineer
Sea Kayak SW Scotland, Solway Firth to the Inner Hebrides.
Scotland Sea Kayaking, Solway Firth to the Inner Hebrides.
Scottish Sea Kayaking, Solway Firth to the Inner Hebrides.
MarkR
Sea Kayak Glasgow: Gorbals to Possilpark
Ceegee
Sea Kayak Scotland, Exploring the Thulian Coast
My intuition says to include Douglas’s name with the title or on the cover.
Kayak SW Scotland with Douglas Wilcox
John C
Well done to Fiona for the winning entry. Thanks to everybody who contributed. There was plenty to consider to hunt down a pithy title and we’ve settled upon:
Argyll & the South West, Ardnamurchan to the Solway Firth by Sea Kayak
by Douglas Wilcox (ISBN 978-1-906095-19-2)
Send us your details so that we can deliver a copy to you when it’s ready Fiona. I’m afraid that’s still some way off, but you can be sure of being among the first to receive a copy. Keep an eye out on pesdapress.com and here for news of our future sea kayak guidebooks.
Regards, Peter
Hello Fiona congratulations!!
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Thank you to everyone for all the great suggestions.
For those of you who know Scottish boundaries, I know that Ardnamurchan is not in Argyll, neither is Loch Sunart, Loch Teacuis, the Sound of Mull and the Lands of Morvern and Appin nor Loch Linnhe and the Corran Narrows and Loch Leven and the Ballachulish narrows. But, rest assured, they are all in the book!
Douglas
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South West Corner Sea Kayaking