Today was the Kayak training day. Four of us headed to Castle Semple Loch this morning to go through some Kaya safety training to ensure Health and Safety compliance when performing bird counts on the rivers. Unfortunately we had to leave Gillian behind manning the office but next time… Kayaking is a perfect way to quickly survey the length of our waters, assessing problems, diffuse pollution sources and count the piscivorous birds at this time of the year. We did this last year and would have started this again a week or two ago but felt it best to wait for…

Source: Ayshire River Trust – Kayak Training Day