Sea Kayak Centre Wins Environment Award

Award winning sea kayak company

Some months ago we won the prestigious Jersey Enterprise Environment Award. The latest edition of the BCU members magazine Canoe Focus features us in an article.

You can read the article here: Sea Kayak Centre Wins Environment Award.

As part of our commitment to the environment we offer reduced rates if you arrive by public transport as well as providing lots of information about the marine and wildlife of Jersey. We also encourage our clients to pick up one piece of rubbish while paddling to both help clean the seas and raise awareness. Eco and Green activities need not require huge amounts of effort. We ask our suppliers to inform us of their environmental and green policies. We also try to buy UK produced equipment to save on the large transport costs of shipping equipment from the Far East producers.

Our guides are Jersey Tourism and Wild Life Safe trained as well as British Canoe Union (BCU) Coaches. Mick and Derek Hairon recently attended the BCU “Sea kayaking and the Environment” workshop in Swindon to add to our knowledge.

Derek Hairon

About derek

Derek Hairon is a British Canoeing level 5 coach (sea) and sea kayak leader guide and assessor.
Derek is the first nationally endorsed British Canoeing accredited guide in Jersey. The British Canoeing kayak guide endorsement supports and recognises the additional skills required when fulfilling a guiding role on sea kayak tours and expeditions worldwide.
Over 49 years of sea kayaking experience. Expeditions to circumnavigate Ireland by kayak, Outer Hebrides, Aland Islands, Faeroe Islands and Alaska. Plus, lots of sea and surf kayaking in the UK. White water-kayaking expeditions in Nepal to paddle the Tamur and Marsyandi Rivers.
Derek wrote Sit-on-top Kayak. A Beginner’s Manual (Pesda Press). It is now in its second reprint and is also translated into French. He is the author of the Channel Island and South East Coast Sea Kayaking guidebook (Pesda Press).