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Trip reports and pictures are now posted for the recent training and Noosa river trips.

New club members are encouraged to familiarise themselves with a free online resource demonstrating a range of paddling and rescue techniques. Use it to improve your technique and abilities. Great step by step animations and instructions.

The Queensland Government has put out a code of conduct for paddling on the Brisbane River. All members are asked to familiarise themselves with it.

Please take particular note of lighting requirements if you are caught out at night, and also the conduct in regard to ferries arriving or leaving terminals.

The code is found here

We've noticed sea kayaks are being left with wet stinky compartments or with hatch seals not in place. Information on how to leave sea kayaks, so that the hatches keep dry and safe for the next user, is now on the website.

Look here for the page.

Message from the web admin

The software the club uses for its website depends heavily on stylesheets. Microsoft Internet Explorer is poorly compliant with standards. Consequently IE displays the pages badly. The pages look wrong because of MS and not the web designers. Please put blame where blame is due.

The Uni of Queensland reckons they spend 10% of their web development time making web pages and about 90% of their time trying to get them working in Internet Explorer... This website is maintained voluntarily and we don't have the time to waste doing that (more than enough time has already been wasted trying - with some degree of compromising of the website under the hood too!). UQ has to get their pages working in IE, but we don't. Please support web designers everywhere and change your web browser! If enough people boycott Internet Explorer then Microsoft will have to fix the program and when they do, you can happily return to IE knowing that you'll now see the web as its makers intended. This will save an incredible amount of resources around the world that could be used for much more useful things (resources we all indirectly pay for (taxes, charges, etc)). It's much less costly just to have our users switch browsers (why should we be expected to spend ages trying to fix it for people who aren't prepared to spend a few minutes switching?)

I suggest using a webkit based browser. This is the engine used by Safari (macs, PCs, iphone, iPad, etc), Chrome (mac & PCs), and browsers (Omniweb, iCab, etc). Webkit runs on various operating systems (Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, various Unix OS (BSD, linux), Symbian (Nokia), Blackberry, Kindle, and webOS (Palm/HP)). A list of webkit based browsers can be found here. There are plenty of good free non-IE browsers available for Mac & PC (Safari, Chrome, Firefox, Opera and more)

Some IE problems -

In IE 7 the page content appears down the bottom of the page (so scroll down).

In IE 8 it was improved, but some of the main page contents are barely legible (increase the font size to help).

If any club volunteers that have the expertise and want to spend the time getting things to work properly in Internet Explorer are welcome to contact the club web admin in this regard, although we'd rather you donate your time to the club doing more useful things!)...

Sorry about that.... (actually I'm not sorry about it - I'm sorry for you if you are forced to use IE)

Marj Morgan (last year's club treasurer) has started a website aimed at helping women in outdoor education and recreation activities. Check it out at http://www.girlsoutdoors.org

Would you like to get updates when this website is updated?

Instructions for how to configure your email program to receive website updates automically are now available.

Remember there are many internet resources available to members.

Links are available to a site that predicts approximate tide times at locations all around Australia. Useful for many areas around Brisbane (including the river).

A free online resource demonstrating a range of paddling and rescue techniques. Use it to improve your technique and abilities. Great step by step animations and instructions.

The website has undergone some major changes. Previous broken functions are now fixed.Check out the Tide predictions page. Please email the net admin if you find links that no longer work.