Windows of opportunity

Back at work + short busy evenings + nasty cold =  missed paddle to the tidal race at Eynhallow this week. Exactly the sort of thing I want to get experience of.  I console myself in the usual way - Eynhallow is not going anywhere, it will still be there for another time... My ability to be 'philosophical' about this varies!

Sometimes in a group of paddlers there is someone else who can't come along because of other commitments, health issues or broken bones.
On the trip there are reminders - the obvious caves they would have relished, rock gardens which would have tempted them and breaking waves they might have whooped in.

Best just to enjoy it when you can then...