Jurassic kayak tours – hotting up!

With all this good weather in the uk many paddlers have taken to the water either on their own craft or as part of a kayak tour.
Fishermen are also having a bumper season on the water with some good bass fishing!

Accommodation availability

We have availability at the Lodmoor Inn throughout the peak season from 24th July to the 28th August. Excellent location with walking distance to the beach and town centre.

For rates please call us on (01305) 835301 or email us at shop@second-wind.co.uk

New Online Shop!!!

We have now launched our fancy new online shop – new products being added daily – anything you would like to see on the online shop or any suggestions please let us know!:)

Site design and build by our ace web designer Dave Lakins at Key Multimedia

The Official OCEAN KAYAK demo centre

Ocean Kayak Demo Centre

We now have an official Ocean Kayak Demo Centre located at Portland Marina, home of the 2012 Sailing Olympics. Come try our full range of Ocean Kayaks (yes we have every model in stock!). for £20 you can demo 3 kayaks of your choice within 1 hour with an experienced kayaker and sales person. If you make a kayak purchase at the end we will refund your £20 against your purchase!

Kai Lenny comes to Weymouth!

Professional waterman Kai Lenny will be coming all the way from his home in Hawaii to the shores of Weymouth tomorrow (15th June) on a tour by his sponsors Oxbow. He will be demonstrating his Paddleboarding and Kitesurfing skills here at Overcombe Corner in front on the shop. Come down around mid day to meet the man himself and see his display of tricks!

Check this video of Kai surfing Jaws!:

Looking good!

We knew there are a lot of kayaks in the ocean kayak range, displaying these has taken most of the day.

It all looks worth it – a work of art at the Portland Marina centre!

Ocean kayak test centre

New to the UK the ‘Ocean Kayak Demo Centre’ will be shortly opening at the new 5 star Dean Reddyhoff  Marina on Portland.

A full display of models from the world leading Ocean Kayak range will be made available

for Demos in the calm clear waters next to this exclusive location.

Each customer will have the oppotunity to try various kayak models with all the necessary equipment included and under the supervision of our expert sales team.

Basic skills and techniques will be provided with added oppotunities to advance further with BCU qualified instructors to hand at super low cost rates for our customers.

There will be a special emphasis on Angling kayaks.

Angling kayaks has captured the imagination of many fisherman the world over. A lengthy list of  advantages include easy launching, finding your own private fish pool and excercise.

Ocean Kayak are without doubt world leaders in Angling with huge web coverage and forums on the subject.

All the latest fish finding gadgetry will be to hand from the Hummingbird range to test and ‘play with’

The official opening date will co-inside with the MarineX show on the 3^rd and 4^th of July

We are expecting a busy time! so booking for demos is advisable and is free to all during the duration of the show.

Kayak Tour spaces this BH weekend

We have a few spaces left on our Jurassic Kayak Tours this Bank Holiday weekend so if you would like to book please call 01305 835301 – be quick as these will fill very soon!

We also have kayaks and Paddleboards for hire (pre booking).

Jurassic Coasteering – A day to remember!

After much encouragement from coasteering instructor Paul Burrows Secondwind watersports launched today 15th May 2010  our new activity ‘Jurassic coasteering‘.

A small group of us decended onto Dancing ledge (go there and you’ll see why its called this)

Down the steps and past the ‘Bat cave.’

We said ‘hi’ to the enthusiastic Bournemouth college students learning the ropes and climbing the small rockface in the full glare of the sun.

Dancing ledge is a amphitheater carved out in the rockface where in bygone days miners cut away at the much sought after Purbeck stone and loaded their goods onto waiting vessels.

The water was turbulent,  the slight onshore breeze and high tide caused small waves to bounce in all directions, this just added to the fun!

Thick wetsuits were definitely the order of the day in the clear cold sea but after a short swim we soon warmed up.

Paul suggested entering the first set of caves, It was comforting to have a professional nearby as we entered the large dark cavern.

The water was turquoise with the crest of waves bouncing us around. There were crevices disappearing into the darkness in all directions. With Pauls vast knowledge of the cave system we soon Popped out into a very different cave.

Here the Birdlife was in abundance – so many varieties of sea birds swopped above our heads at very close proximity.

Gillimots, Cormarants and Puffins divebombed for fish and promptly perched on the ledges above to feed their eagerly waiting offspring.

For me this was the highlight of our little expedition. Nowhere could you feel more at one with nature. To the birds we were just some flotsam bobbing around as they went about their daily routine.

From this Day on I am sure many others will book in on a ‘Jurassic Coasteering‘ adventure and experience the thrill of the turbulent clear seas of the Jurassic coastline and be in awe of this stretch of Britians most spectacular coast.

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