Charmed life!
What a week to take off. It rained quite a lot up in the Lake District, but was still great fun climbing Helvellin – Old Man of Coniston – and a great day on Scafell Pike, Great End and all that lot!
(Striding edge & Red Tarn, Looking down from Helvellin)
Shock horror we decided not to take any boats and so did no paddling for a hole 8 days, quite a break! Sunday I got back to London and although the scenery down here cannot really be described as Beautiful I do love the Thames, love getting back to it finding what level it is and then finding what to paddle! With the UK drying, just a little, after a week of torrential rain the Thames is on an expectable level. And the good news’s is Sunbury yesterday at least was great and rather empty!
(Saturday "boy" Seth, Nearly this time, But he made it!)
I took “Saturday” down for his first taste of a good Thames wave and although it took him a while to work out how to get on it, he did! The wave is not at its ravaging best, but pretty good. Rater than a good ride of consistent moves the runs were more like! Paddle like hell to get on, bit of survival surfing, throw a huge massive move, try and land it! Try to survive the landing, try to get back off. This is a hard place to find working but if you do it’s a great laugh. Sunny too! which is always nice.
P.S. I Love my JetBoil!
posted by Pete @ 4:22 AM
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