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The daily commute.

It sounds bad but with Face Book being so fun I had rather forgotten about the blogg. Feel quite bad now, well see here I've done a a little write up about my paddle into work today, hope you enjoy.

I think it’s fair to say that the rain we had on Sunday and Monday has now made it into all the rivers around us. Normally the river Wey is a quiet slow moving old hector of a river, but not today! The rain has swollen the river and it’s starting to pop out of its banks all over the place. And the normally quite flat river had some quite nice rapids and 3 mandatory portages today. Following the river down threw ByFleet Village pass Mercedes-Benz world and Brook lands motor museum the river was really flowing well. The Wey eventually pop’s out at Shepperton which weir, this again is pretty chunky at the moment, the pool levels are all super high at the moment so not great for play boating but well worth a visit if your in the area. Bellow are a few pictures showing my commute today, not a bad way of getting to work really?

(The classic bins in a river.)

(The road bridge @ Brooklands)

(the first Portage, low flying bridge!)

(Mercedes-Benz world, great family day out. And really good for works Christmas Doo's)

(The second portage @ Brooklands motor museum, another fantastic day out and they now have a Concord you can have a look in! it's a cool place)

(The road bridge @ Weybridge. This is also where the Wey canal re joins the river, but that a whole other paddle...)

The last portage. The last lock on the Wey, down from here it all Thames baby)

(Back on Old father Thames, with a lot of water! it is shifting today.)

(and back to Shepperton Marina, 58 minuets of interesting commute.)

(It's cold today again too. The freezing fog is pretty nippy on the hands.)

(And a little map of the route, the canal to the left and the river "this trip" on the right.)

If you would like to paddle and explorer this section this is the Map to get, the map in the picture above. shows the area well, it's pretty easy to work out where to get in and out, all the pubs are marked on it too. This One Look Here!

posted by Pete @ 3:02 AM