Sentence examples for last paddle from inspiring English sources

Meanwhile, I took a few last paddle strokes to bring our two-person craft in for a closer look.

But here I was on Day 8 in the front of a double kayak, with Bob in the back, feeling confident about my ability and eager for one last paddle.

Loch Lomond Shores is 18 miles north-west of Glasgow and is also home to the Maid of the Loch, the last paddle steamer to be built in Scotland and open to visitors.

The last paddle steamer ceased running in the 1950s, superseded by road transport.

Cunard emerged as the leading carrier of saloon passengers and in 1862 commissioned Scotia, the last paddle steamer to win the Blue Riband.

The pleasures of summer were ticking down all over New Jersey in the week before Labor Day — last dives into the surf, last paddles across the lake, last tents pitched and fishing lines cast, last moments to savor under the sun before the great migration back indoors began.

Epps, one of the surfing pioneers of Brooks Street in the '60s and '70s, was joined by a who's-who in Laguna surfing history for his last paddle-out.

Later in the summer you can take the heritage route of the Waverley, the world's last working paddle steamer, from Glasgow and back.

From Glasgow, the Waverley, the world's last seagoing paddle steamer, makes day trips to the Isle of Bute (0845 130 4647, waverleyexcursions.co.uk; return fares from £27).

A commemorative photograph shows him shirtless and triumphant, a wild man with a can of Budweiser and a slab of barbecue, the last to paddle to victory in anything so primitive as a homemade wooden rowboat.

In fact, Hadwin was last seen paddling north — bound, it seemed, for Alaska.