Canoe trips for River Festival

Kilcullen Canoe Club is offering guided trips along the river as its part of the Kilcullen River Festival, next Sunday writes Brian Byrne.

The trips, in the club's Canadian canoe, cost €5 per adult and €3 per child. Family rates are available, and the trips can be pre-booked by contacting the club, but it's also OK to just turn up on the day and wait for a turn.

In addition to seeing Kilcullen (and the Festival) from a different perspective, trippers may get to meet some of the diverse bird life we have along the banks and in the river, including the swans (above) and the heron.

(Meantime, if you want to have a bit more knowledge of the environment along the river before you take the trip, come along tonight to the launch of the Biodiversity Survey commissioned by Kilcullen Community Action.)