MAY 06 - Up the Creek with a Paddle!

Canoe Safaris on the Western Yar : Explore this beautiful and unspoilt area of outstanding natural
beauty and view it from a different perspective.
• No previous canoeing experience necessary.
• Available on selected days this summer during the half term and summer holidays. ... MORE

NOVEMBER 05 - Steve & Kellie hangout with the Squirrels for the morning!

Its 10am on a freezing cold Monday morning at the end of November, any public sector worker with sense would be tucked up in a cosy office sipping back a nice cuppa coffee (fairtrade of course), but no, not me. I’m stood in the middle of a field in deepest Whippingham (somewhere over the back of Osborne House), surrounded by a bunch of inquisitive looking Alpacas... MORE

JULY 05 - Trafalgar200: Ryde is transformed into a Lowry-esque Landscape

Well June has been and gone for another year, the IoW Festival hangover has passed and my friends have returned to their respective LA, Durban, Honduran & French retreats. Even I, the extreme optimist, was beginning to feel that the best (May & June) had passed for another year…and then…July began... MORE

JUNE 05 - The Creative Magic of the Isle of Wight

I recently read a book called the ‘Play Ethic’ by former Hue & Cry front man Pat Kane, who has now turned academic/consultant/writer/player/voice of those who truly embody what 21st century living is all about. Personally it offered me nothing hugely ground-breaking in terms of thought but what it did give me was the confidence in my approach, in that there are others... MORE

MAY 05 - Green Island Guide to Summer 2005

If you're visiting the Island this summer then you can expect something special...Cowes, Trafalgar, REM, Gaffers, Garlic, Morrissey, Carnivals...to name a few. Here's Green Island Coordinator Steve Blamire's guide to a crazy, lazy summer on the Isle of Wight! May is probably one of my most favoured months of the year, winter is finally behind us, spring has loosened the palette ... MORE

MARCH 05 - 2005 : The Year of the Green Island

The evenings are beginning to get lighter, the birds are singing again and green shoots are beginning to appear on the trees and shrubs, sounds more like spring than winter? But then this is a changing world in which we are now living, winters are the mildest on record and the summers the hottest on record, the current models are now suggesting... MORE

FEBRUARY 05 - Shalfleet Manor Launches Winter Estuary Safaris

Over the past few months Green Island has been working with Mike Waterhouse from Shalfleet Manor in developing his estuary safaris. The business has now been fully launched and Mike has already received substantial visitors to his new venture. The business has not been fully Green Island graded but that will be finalised during the... MORE