Sunday paddle

Craig, Alice, Ricky & Leanna turned up complete with picnic, to do a slightly extended paddle on Sunday. Our journey took us up the canal to Beeston, up river nearly to the edge of the caravan site at Thrumpton just below the portage for Trent Lock, at a steady pace. Hunger seemed to be gnawing despite it still being the morning, so we turned downstream and stopped on the small beach just above Barton Island for lunch.

The younger paddlers amused themselves in a variety of energetic ways including investigations of the how to swim a tippy boat from the middle of the river to the bank,

cross country running across grassy fields

...and an in depth study of alluvial deposits - their deposition & distribution ...

I rested.

The paddle back was as incident free as the first stage and at a similar pace.

Altogether an enjoyable day out that also happened to include some serious training efforts totalling over 15 miles!