ADVENTURE

What springs to mind when you hear the word adventure? What is adventure?

My thoughts immediately turn to an image of a pale, slender gentleman, walking through an alien jungle with little protection from the sun other than his floppy hat. To ward off the ferocious animals he might encounter, he has a rifle and behind him, his team follow tentatively. Each member clutching a rifle as if their life depends upon it.

Adventure is hard to define. It can only be experienced. When I go on adventures my mind races with excitement. My heart starts to flutter with pitter patter type spasms similar to springtime love. My face and hands start sweating uncontrollably.

Adventure involves exploration. In the process, you should learn more about the world around you and more about yourself and what you’re capable of.

Travel provides so many opportunities for adventure, from the anticipation of boarding a plane bound for a new destination to mixing with strangers from other cultures and attempting to communicate in another language. It allows you to experience unusual practices, volunteer with disadvantaged communities and witness incredible spectacles.

Challenging yourself to try new things will give you an adrenaline buzz like no other. Throwing yourself from a plane, or indeed flying one upside down, should do it. As should leaping from a platform with a bungy cord tied around your ankles. But you don’t have to terrify yourself to be adventure.

Different types of adventurous activities:

Scrambling/trekking: Travel by walking, scrambling, swimming and jumping, wearing suitable clothing and using specialist equipment up either a dry or wet gorge / river bed.

Kayaking: Small, enclosed solo boats powered by the occupant using a double bladed paddle on lochs, canals or rivers.

Duckies: Inflatable rubber kayak/canoe, paddled by two as above on moving water

Canoeing: Larger, open solo or double boats powered by the occupant(s) using a single bladed paddle on lochs, canals or rivers.

Hill walk: A walk up or across remote hillsides as well as less remote walks along nature trails, canals and footpaths etc. This activity may be remotely supervised in order for the participants to get the most learning from the activity.

Orienteering: Locating various markers and points indicated on maps to find either codes or answers to puzzles and problems. This activity may be remotely supervised (see below) in order for the participants to get the most learning from the activity.

Remote Supervision: In some instances participants may be some distance from their group leader or Instructor due to the nature of the activity i.e. Orienteering.

Climbing / Abseil: Ascending / descending rock crags or purpose built indoor man - made walls using specialist equipment.

Camping: Staying out overnight in tents either in a camp site or in a remote setting.

Mountain biking: Travelling along roads, tracks and trails using purpose built mountain bikes.

Archery: Using bows and arrows to fire at targets in a confined and designated safe area.

Sailing: Use the wind to manoeuvre our Small sailing dinghies suitable for one or two people, around our 16 acre loch at James Hamilton Heritage Park.

Windsurfing: Again using the wind to manoeuvre around our loch our range of windsurf boards combined with our windsurf sails are suitable for all from total beginner to the more advanced.

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