Daily Trips

Our regular trips all start and finish from Cotehele Quay

Availability of the journeys varies according to the daily tide times.Check out our timetable to see the times of trips each day between April and September 2010.

For a sketch map of the part of the river we use, click here.

The river Tamar devides Cornwall and Devon. The first journey takes starts from Cotehele Quay. You will be on the water between three and  three and a half hours and we will take a picnic break at our private river side wild meadow.

Cotehele Quay is part of the National Trust property based around Cotehele House, Cornwall. The Shamrock, a fully restored Tamar barge is moored there. There are tearooms in the Edgcumbe Arms on the quay and delicious local organic ice cream for sale.

We will paddle past the steep woodlands of the Cotehele estate and the chapel built by Sir Richard Edgcumbe to mark his escape from the Roundheads. A sharp bend in the river take us past Danescombe House, built for a mine captain and once a hotel. Boatyards and moorings bring us to the famous Calstock viaduct completed in 1907 which we paddle underneath. The viaduct is still in use by the Tamar Valley rail link from Gunnislake to Plymouth. and our halt at the village.

The river then winds it way up past Okel Tor Quay and Gawton Quay, once part of a large thriving copper industry with ships taking the ore from the 19th century mines along the valley. There is evidence of the mining activity all the way, with ruins, chimneys and disused small quays.

For a sketch map of the route we follow, click here.

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Our second journey again starts from Cotehele paddles along the same route as the first journey but goes further up the valley past Morwellham Quay and onto Weir Head.  - the upper limit of the tidal Tamar - and then paddle back down with the changing tide.

The peace and tranquillity of the upper river increases our chances of seeing the rarer wild life of the river, kingfisher and peregrine falcon or even an otter.

This journey will give you about five hours on the water. This trip is available for groups of 6 or more. Please enquire about timings.

For a sketch map of the route we follow, click here.

 

Special Trips

This year we have the following special trips to offer you...

 

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