FILM: Wild adventure, how does it feel?

Mike Tait (West Coast Explorer): “I think increasingly, our lives are deskbound and digital now as well. The value of these kind of experiences is to get out and actually do things. When you break that routine and you come somewhere like this… it’s extraordinary”.

• Mike Tait was one of our travellers on a West Coast Explorer sea kayaking wild adventure last year.

Mike Tait afloat in Loch Hourn on the remote Knoydart peninsula.

Jane Brown (Canoeing and walking the North West Highlands): “The peace of it. You know, you can just find that moment of peace. And that kind of gives you a spiritual uplift, doesn’t it. And you can then take that away with you”.

• Jane Brown shares some thoughts on what it means to her during one of the most wild adventures that we offer. This is a canoeing and camping expedition to the North West Highlands.

Gazing across the wild panorama of Inverpolly on our canoeing trip in the North west Highlands.

Catriona Mackenzie (Sandwood Bay visit): “To be out in it. To feel it, as well as see it and hear it. That feeling of connection with it all. You can’t put a price on that.”

Catriona Mackenzie was one of our guests who sadly left her trip early due to illness. This was particularly hard on her as she was due to visit a very special beach called Sandwood Bay. Her grandfather had told her about the place as a young girl. We decided to give her a wee surprise and arranged for her to be taken up to the North West Highlands and finally reach Sandwood.

• Here’s a wee film we made about that trip.

Catriona and Wilderness Guide Kirsty approaching Sandwood Bay.

Craig Forsythe (Wilderness Guide): “You really get a feel that you’re in a remote place, a wilderness place. A really special place”.

Craig Forsythe is one of our Wilderness Guides. This group of people perhaps epitomise the thinking that wild places add so much value to our lives. They have made wild adventure the central ethos of how they live.

Craig snapped this stunning shot of sunset in Loch Scionascaig on a canoe adventure