Adventure With Purpose and Heart! We recently heard from WAExpo attendee and friend Sian Davies, about her encounter with Wayne and Koda, you may have seen this special duo on Facebook? Always keen to hear more about Adventures with purpose, what inspires them and the hospitality which so often accompanies them, we asked Sian to…
How to “Explore, Dream and Discover”…. without the guilt. Della Parsons, a two-time circumnavigator with the Clipper Race, is Recruitment Manager for the world’s greatest ocean adventure. On Saturday 7th October at WAExpo 2017 Della shared a workshop tackling some of the challenges female applicants say that they face when signing up…and how to surmount…
Outdoor Swimming - A Gateway to Positive Change It’s 1.15am and pitch black, apart from the flashing lights attached to my swimming cossy and hat. The gate to the back of the fishing boat is opened and I sit down, dangling my feet above the ‘tropical’ 16 degree Celsius English Channel, about to jump in…
An endurance test like no other, raced by people like you… The Clipper Round the World Yacht Race is an epic eleven-month adventure taken on by amateur sailors. Racing across the world’s most challenging oceans, crew circumnavigate the globe on board a fleet of identical Clipper 70ft ocean racing yachts guided by a professional skipper.…
What makes the best #SwimSelfie? Win a years subscription to Outdoor Swimmer Magazine and a kit bag full of swim gear from Zoggs. A Lotus Rises is the swim blog for women who love open water and we’re very excited to be delivering our Guide to Open Water Swimming at WAExpo 2017, the annual flagship…
‘Keep believing the impossible is possible…You won’t know how good you are, you will never be able to tap into your potential, until you learn that mistakes are part of life and learning…The route can be as easy or as hard as you perceive it to be…Facing [my] fears is worth it, even if it…
WAExpo have entered a boat in this year’s Bristol Dragon Boat Festival on Sunday 18th June to help raise funds for local Bristol charities. As many people head down to the harbourside with a picnic in tow to sit beside the water eating, drinking and watching the races, we thought we would ask Jyoti from…
‘You can do more than you think, should dream of more than you do, and can discover more than you know…… In the end, we’re all just stories. So you may as well make it a good one. Live a good story’. Belinda Dixon When we think about adventure often our first thoughts are those…
‘Everyone can be an ambassador for adventure in their daily life. It’s all about talking the talk and walking the walk every day. There is a world of adventure to explore every time you step outside your front door’. Anna-Marie Watson. Half the battle of committing to and completing an adventure, whether it be…