Month: January 2008

I have uploaded some photos of Shepperton on Saturday to Facebook. Photos courtesy of William Carter. Click on the image to see more photos

It has been a great weekend. We started the weekend with a trip to Shepperton after reading reports that it was on a good 10 gate level. When we arrived, we could see it was down to 9 gates, but I can assure you that it did not disappoint. For…

I couldn’t turn down an opportunity to do some big water paddling on the Thames. With all the rain we had been graced with in the weeks leading up to the weekend, I was hoping to finally be able to catch Sunbury, or Shepperton at the levels it is renowned…

On my way back from Somerset, I stopped of at Hurley to further test out my new kit. All the recent rain had brought the level of the Thames right up and Hurley was on a very high 4 gates, although not in the stanchions. All of the side radials…

Yesterday my new Lomo Renegade Drysuit was delivered. I have been waiting for this since October in Scotland, when I decided that my dry trousers just weren’t up to the job anymore. I came to this decision as I was wringing the water out of my thermal trousers, which were…

After too much time spent over-indulging over the Christmas period, I decided that I needed to get out for a day – and what better a way to spend an afternoon than a gentle paddle down the dart.

Having returned from our ski trip in the early hours of Sunday 23rd December, I then had to drive back to Somerset later on that day. On the drive to Somerset we stopped off at Hurley for a quick paddle. To say it was foggy was a bit of an…