Getting back into the swing of things!
tomthepaddleman | November 6, 2010Righty, for a while I haven’t been paddling all that regularly due to this that and the other (mainly exam and Med-School related things), but now I’m at uni I have a lot more opportunities to go paddling and it’s awesome. I have started to become ‘the one with a kayak in his toilet’ and somehow I’ve just got my mitts on a new creeker too, and I have no idea where that’s going to go, it may have to sleep on the bed whilst I get the space under the desk…
After rain dancing for a few weeks, it’s finally started to absolutely piss it down, so we hit up the northern rivers.
After hearing things about the twiss and doe we went on a 3-4 hour car journey from sheffield in order to locate these apparently fine gems. We found the doe- with a hell of a lot of water in it. Some of it looked fantastic and beautifully runnable. Other bits were absolutely horrific in high water. So after looking at it we went to the car and boats and ran away to a low swale. The Swale is immense!
Photos below, and yes that is indeed an engima plastic squirt boat…