Sea Kayaking Tours Available, In This Glorious Weather, Across Glengarriff Bay

Sea Kayaking Tours Available, In This Glorious Weather, Across Glengarriff Bay

Get in touch on bushcraftireland@gmail.com or text/whatsapp message 086 8604564

Last Min Upcoming Glengarriff Bay Kayak Trips 

Possible Extra Summer Date For Lowland Leader Assessment; Plus Map Reading-Mountain Skills 1

Lowland Leader Assessment this weekend fully booked. Going through students exam papers and route plans, in some very damp, midgy, rainforest-esque woods, this morning.

It may be possible to schedule an extra assessment date over this summer; either midweek or weekend.
Same for possibly scheduling an extra map reading Mountain Skills 1.

Location Glengarriff/Cork.

Get in touch on bushcraftireland@gmail.com if you'd like to be put on a waiting list 🙂
 

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Pyramid Fire Lay

Pyramid Fire Lay:

 

The basic pyramid fire lay. Built on a piece of dry wood, to serve as a hot ember base, and keep fire off damp ground initially.

 

You'll see the dry lichen, mixed with pine sap, to get the sparks ignited.

 

The trick with the pyramid lay is get it built quickly, to allow updraft effect, plus dry any dampness from fuel.

 

To increase your fire to camp-size/cooking-size; continue the pyramid lay, but increase wood size...

 

 

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Rainy Day Cormorant

The rain seemed to make this cormorant especially friendly :)

Guided sea kayaking trip out across Glengarriff Bay...

They are pretty specialized, deep-diving seabirds known for hunting fish by swimming underwater.

They can swim to depths of 45m.

Unlike most seabirds, they have wettable feathers that allow them to sink easily, necessitating their iconic pose of standing with wings outstretched to dry.

A group of cormorants is called a gulp!

Click Here To See Details Of Our Glengarriff Bay Sea Kayaking Tours; Plus Our Bioluminescence Night Kayaking

Lowland Leader Assessments - Cork, Ireland

Our pre-summer Lowland Leader Assessment, is fully booked, however if there's enough interest it may be possible to schedule another for May/Jun (either midweek or weekend), in Glengarriff.

 

Please get in touch to bushcraftireland@gmail.com if you're interested, and also let me know if you can do midweek as well as weekend.

 

Thanks, Nathan 

Roasting Limpets - Bushcraft Training

Needed to practice something for a bushcraft course in May; that's involving sea shore foraging.

Limpets; pretty tasty; usually cooked in hot water, like mussels. But without a pan; what can you do?

1. Heat a stone on a small fire (which also sterilises the stone). 

2. Place limpets onto the stone.

3. Drag some hot embers over the top.

4. Leave roast for 4-10 mins, depending...

5. Clear the embers and eat off the stone.

 

In this case I overcooked them slightly, but still really good 🙂

While mussels are delicious, and we do eat them, limpets can be safer to eat; as they don't filter feed-they graze like a cow; so collect less potential toxins.

Limpets are high protein, have omega 3 fatty acids, and vitamin b12, among other things.

Bushcraft Skills Course This Coming Weekend - Glengarriff/Cork - Places Available

Two places are left available for a beginner friendly Bushcraft Skills 1, next weekend; 25th-26th Apr.

 

Over the weekend, among other things we'll be looking at simple bread making in a dutch oven; making fire from spark, using a pyramid lay; using a kelly kettle to boil water quickly; and of course some foraging for dinner.

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Some Basic Ideas For Being Prepped For The Unforseen

We never necessarily thought we'd see a situation like covid; or in this age of awareness, the atrocities currently happening around the world.

Most recently the impact of a couple days of fuel shortages, and probably a further knock-on effect from this week.

It can be worth asking yourself; how organised and prepared are you to survive simply and comfortably, off grid; for example with no electricity, or no working vehicle; for a week/a fortnight/a month?

Being prepped for off grid living can be a complex and daunting subject. However at a basic level, you could consider one of these things.

1. Have a fortnight of bottled drinking water and non perishable food stocked up. Food can be as simple as pasta/rice/flour/oats, tomato sauce in glass, long shelf life tinned meat such as spam/tuna.

2. Have a simple gas camping stove, with adequate gas supply. Cook a meal on it once a week regardless, so you are comfortable using it. I spent a full year recently cooking every dinner on the small stove in photo 1. It's not that difficult to eat well and healthily with one-pot-meals 🙂
For example, did you know you can cook simple and tasty bread and scones, in a pan?
Don't just wait for the emergency to happen, before tackling the stove.
Yes - as the number of people you're cooking for increases, so does the level of work, but there are things like - pasta/potatoes can cook in their own hot water, sitting on the counter, while the pan of bolognese cooks on the camping stove...

3. Get away from electricity, to some extent.
Photo 2: wood burning stove with a hot top for pans and an oven for baking.
Photo 3: if a wood burning stove is not an option, get a gas cooker, with a couple of gas bottles.

There is much more to prepping, but this can be a simple achievable start.
And really someone in your family unit/friend unit should be well versed in simple, but solid, bushcraft skills.

Upcoming Bushcraft Skills Courses - In Glengarriff, Ireland

I have one place left on a beginner friendly five-day Bushcraft Skills starting 15th Apr; in the wilds of Glengarriff.

 

Two places left on a beginner friendly two-day Bushcraft Skills starting 25th Apr.

 

And two places left on an intermediate three-day Bushcraft/Survival Skills starting 20th May.

 

For Details: info@outdoorsireland.com

Recent Mountain Training In The Caha Mountains

Some recent mountain training shots from the Caha Mountains, West Cork.

Over the coming weeks both a Mountain Skills 1 (map and compass skills) plus Lowland Leader Training are running.

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