Kamikaze Sea Kayaking.... St Abbs Compilation

[@colmhanrahan2769]

Loved it Geoff . Thank you

[@geoffburke]

@colmhanrahan2769 Hi Colm, thanks for your comments. It's great to have you along. St Abbs is a stunning place to kayak whatever the conditions as the scenery and wildlife are superb !! I find it even more rewarding when conditions start to get spicy, and you can test your timings between the rocks and gullies, as shown in the compilation from several visits. It's great when flat calm too, which enables you to explore each little nook and cranny. My wife loved it on a beautifully sunny day a few years back. Stay tuned, Colm, for lots more new videos from some excellent trips this year so far. Thanks again, and if not already don't forget to subscribe... Cheers Geoff

[@judecollett7004]

Your videos are so inspiring. Thank you for taking the time and effort.

[@geoffburke]

@@judecollett7004 Ahh Thanks again, so much your those comments, it's appreciated 😊 I'm pleased you are enjoying the video's, I've a mountain of footage from the loads of trips this year so far, that I've just not had time to edit them. Video's should be coming thick and fast shortly so stay tuned for mor action soon 😉 😂😂

[@LongIslandKayakJourneys]

I am amazed of your adventures. I presumed you guys train together and know each other's abilities to go out like this.

[@geoffburke]

@@LongIslandKayakJourneys Hi Tuan and thanks for your kind comments. My sea kayaking history takes me way back to 1972 when I first started but even long before that, I've always had a great love of the sea from being mesmerised by waves crashing onto the coast before the age of 10 sitting for hours on the clifftops in Cornwall while on holiday. This evolved into; board surfing, kayak surfing, scuba diving instructor etc and a tremendous love of the sea my entire life. These days I paddle with many kayak groups from all over the UK and abroad, the paddles shown in the video were from around 100 mile radius and sufficient skill to deal with the conditions. I also believe in exposing folk to more challenging conditions to encourage progression, whist having the ability to incident manage situations should they occur. I've a mountain of footage still to edit from trips this year so, please subscribe, share content with friends and I welcome regular feedback in order to answer questions and improve both min and others skills. Thanks again and best regards.... Geoff

[@bryangoldthorpe8906]

Brilliant

[@geoffburke]

@@bryangoldthorpe8906 Thanks again Bryan, pleased you enjoyed it and welcome back. I'm a bit slow on getting trip footage edited, I've been so busy paddling here and there no time to fit much else in this year. Cheers Geoff 👍

[@gadgetman_nz4092]

Great video Geoff. Looking forward to getting back on the water myself.

[@geoffburke]

@@gadgetman_nz4092 Oh, Gadget you must get back on the water soon, a good salt water injection 💉 is essential for our wellbeing and the soul 😉 😀 Thanks again!! 👍

[@dugeish]

Properly titled indeed! Geoff, another terrific presentation of inspiration, skill and AWE in a beautiful environment. Geoff, its a good thing insurance is not compulsory for paddling, i dont think anyone would cover you.😮 Having said that you are still very much afloat. Great stuff, thanks.

[@geoffburke]

@@dugeish Thanks Doug as always. I'll contact you when back home later, off for a nice flat, sedate, local paddle at South Shields today. Speak later 👍

[@davidpoots8362]

If only every day could be like that

[@geoffburke]

@@davidpoots8362 Hi David, thanks for your great comments as usual. Yes absolutely, only I'd probably end up broken in hospital, put back together with metalwork repairs to match my spine and new joints, no wonder I'm putting on weight 😂😂 hopefully the kayak would fair better 👍 It's a wonderful playground, also a very beautiful coastline, packed with wildlife, perfect when both spicy and calm!! Heading up there on Sunday if anyone is interested 👍 Thanks Again Geoff

[@iansoutdooradventures]

Wow - amazing. For me, on a calm day, it looks like a lovely place to paddle!

[@geoffburke]

@@iansoutdooradventures Hi Ian, thanks for your comments, yes St Abbs is a fabulous place and a gem of a Kayaking trip; wildlife, scenery, coastal features and sea conditions, calm or spicy!! Cheers Geoff 👍

[@hamfish2009]

Aye, it's cracking place to paddle. One of my favourite spots👍

[@geoffburke]

@@hamfish2009 😂😂👍 Knew you'd enjoy it, a spot on venue and superb conditions, calm or spicy !!

[@pacerc200]

Another cracking video, love your laughing throughout

[@geoffburke]

@@pacerc200 Hi Scott, thanks for your comments, yes I get so excited with spicy conditions and I love testing myself with a challenge through the gullies. 😂😂👍🤪

[@janeseddon5500]

Hi Geoff. Peter here. I only just returned this late afternoon from a 3 day kayak camp, turned the computer on and voila, there was this video from Geoff Burke, which I just had to watch. St Abbs looks amazing with a little swell, and I could imagine myself heading through those gullies and wondered what I would do in those situations. The re-enter roll, and skillfully done, I must say, made me think, what about the water in the boat? All my kayaks have electric bilge pumps so in the event of a re-enter roll, one can concentrate on stabilizing the kayak while the de-stabilizing water is being pumped out. Important in lumpy water. How did you get the water out given there did not appear to be a handy beach available. Hand pumps are fine, but if you have any experience of pumping out a flooded cockpit with one, ypu would go electric, quick smart. Thanks for editing and uploading this video. I really enjoyed it so much. At 70 years old and a fairly competent kayaker it is the sort of stuff that makes me even more keen to get out on the water, which is currently once or twice a week, minimum.

[@geoffburke]

@@janeseddon5500 Hi Peter, thanks for your comments. Sounds like you're having fun and certainly getting out plenty, well done much better than myself at present, (apart from a couple of local trips last weekend), as I'm trying to reduce the mountain of editing accumulated from lots of extended trips since March 🙄🙄 The St Abbs compilation has been a video idea for some time. Yeah, Dave is a very competent paddler and a re-entry roll is something he's quite happy about with, a swift paddle out to safety, a simple raft up and a hand pump had him emptied, quickly and smoothly. The electric bilge pump set up seems quite popular in various parts of the world especially in Aussie but very rare over here 🤔 Maybe water temp is a factor as you guys also swim boats out through surf, which strikes me as very strange 🙄😂🤣. My mindset is very much KISS... keep, it, simple, stupid...more equipment, is more to maintain and or fail especially if rarely used, an electric pump has many component parts to go wrong, is individual to the boat and assumes everyone in the group has one... and it's going to work, but is there a backup for a failure scenario...sorry if I sound critical, its not my intention 🙄🤔 I carry a simple hand pump suspended in a net under my deck between my legs with my lunch bag, it utilises the dead space but is slick, basic and works when required, lunch is always to hand enabling me to eat without landing, I often choose to eat that way if the landings are iffy, slippy boulders or waves breaking on sharp rocks...im quite happy to lounge and graze on a moving sea 😃😃. The weather must be pretty good over there at present coming into your summer, enabling some good trips, you must send me a few pics, I'm sure the scenery is amazing. I always fancied a trip out to Broughton Island while visiting Nelson Bay area but sadly not enough time wile on holiday with the family. Our Stuart has moved further North to Port Macquarie so I guess it'll never happen now 😥🥺 Stay tuned lots to come in the near future. Best Regards Geoff 👍😎

[@alexdobie1808]

Exactly the same opinion as Ian, looks amazing but I think I would prefer it a little calmer, I wouldn't have any kayak left!

[@geoffburke]

@@alexdobie1808 It's a super paddle Alex, and you can't beat a lovely sunny day with flat calm conditions to just meander around all of the incredible features observing the many species of wildlife the shear joy of scenery is overwhelming....its a must do spot for every kayaker !!

[@TreLongboard]

Excellent video again Geoff! Which stabilisation setting are you using on the GoPro, if you don’t mind me asking? I just can't seem to find one that looks even halfway natural for sea kayaking. Using the Hero 11.

[@geoffburke]

@@TreLongboard Hi Juha, welcome back and as always thanks for your comments, keep them coming as loads more content to edit and upload very soon 👍👍 I used to use the Hero 10 with standard stabilisation and Horizon leveling which I found fine, but GoPro's inability to sort out the usless unreliability issues... locking up requiring the battery to be removed on nearly every trip at least once was just a joke!!! Lots of excellent footage lost when it's too rough to take it to bits in a sea kayak, risking water ingress!! The original Hero 10 was replaced more than 5 times and still has the same issue!! I moved to DJI's Action 4 which uses the same 1:1.7 lens as my Mini 3 Pro drone. It gives stunning results and uses DJI's RockSteady 3.0 Technology, it gives a slightly wider field of view even in Parallel (dewarp) mode and I use 4K at 30 or 60 fps. It's ultra reliable, with no issues in the 12 months that I've been using it. The Action 5 is being released in the coming weeks, which has the same form factor and a bunch of new settings/enhancements, that's all I can find out at present. I'm more than happy with image quality etc and find it much better than the GoPro. I hope this helps...stay tuned for more coming soon 👍👍 Cheers Geoff

[@calatoruldac]

I haven't seen anything posted by you before, and I'm honestly thinking of asking if you're okay with your health. Only good my friend!🤗

[@geoffburke]

@@calatoruldac Hi Viorel, I hope you are keeping well and still getting out in your kayak. Yes, sorry I've been missing from the channel, I've been paddling that much these last few months and my wife has had a knee replacement, so just too busy to get video editing done...my apologies 🙃 But on the up side, I'll soon be knocking out video's from all of these trips I've been away on 😂😂 Stay tuned for new content very soon!! 👍👍

[@calatoruldac]

@@geoffburke I am glad to know that you are well, and that you had many trips to the sea. I am very sorry for your wife, that she has medical problems. I send them through you, good health!