The Beeline Britain team, which is supported by Prince Harry’s Endeavour Fund, arrived into Porth Dafarch on Anglesey at 1430 on a beautiful, sunny bank holiday Monday, to be greeted by a flotilla of sea kayakers and 100s of well wishers on the beach.
They have now completed over 400km of their 1,100km straight-line journey.
Team member, local resident and outdoor instructor, Adam Harmer, was greeted by friends and family as he kayaked into familiar coastal waters.
The Beeline Britain adventurers kayaked for 24 hours non-stop from the north Pembrokeshire coast, across 157km of glassy seas to arrive into North Wales.
Before he left from Porthgain in Pembrokeshire Adam said, “I’m really excited to be taking on another ambitious kayak journey. It will be a tough challenge again but to round the Llyn Peninsular and then arrive into a stretch of water I know so well will be brilliant.”
For Ian O’Grady, who created the Beeline concept, arriving into the golden sands of Porth Dafarch to be greeted by his parents, his brother and friends was really special; “to go from an idea I came up with in a pub nearly 3 years ago to kayaking from Land’s End to North Wales and meeting my family is just superb!”
Friends of Nick Beighton, Paralympian and double-amputee veteran, swam out to meet the exhausted kayakers and bring them home in style.
The team will recover for a few days on Anglesey before pushing on to the Isle of Man, the coast of Dumfries and Galloway and then on to John O’Groats. Although they have already travelled 400kms and kayaked for 57 hours, they are yet to hit the half-way marker!
Beeline Britain is attempting to be the first ever straight line journey from Land’s End to John O’Groats. The challenge is raising money for BLESMA; the limbless veterans charity.