Dispatch - A Quiet Paddle on Loch Affric

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These dispatches are short form captions from our lives outdoors; sometimes we may be discussing a plant or tree, other times we’ll be waxing philosophical about nature. We hope to drop a few of these in-between the main episodes just to keep in touch with you during the month and to share what we believe to those all important moments in nature.

If you’re listening at home, enter an immersive experience of nature, crunching leaves, trickling streams, high winds at times, and two friends holding discourse in the outdoors.

In this dispatch JD takes to the water in an open canoe just after sunrise, to enjoy the still morning waters of Loch Affric. The glass black water broken into crystal by the paddle, each stroke moving a world under the canoe, is something to be experienced by everyone. Hopefully the recording captures even a small part of the sensation.