Downstream
falls into the estuary. At the shore there is soft mud, at the Ray it’s hard-packed sand, and one of it ...
You should, he says, always try and swim across the current, but ‘they tried to beat the tide’ – and nearly ...
wrecks and once a pre-1900s cannonball. It’s not unknown for an angler to walk into the casino and say, “l ...
be dragged under it by the current, where there are mussels, barnacles and shell- fish, in which case ‘ ...
and suffer cardiac arrest. Traffic’s another danger; near the shore there is a speed limit for jet skis, but once ...
Richard is certainly putting me off having a swim around here, and recent reports from the Southend Lifeboat ...
Canvey Island to assist his buddy who he had just witnessed capsizing!’ There was ‘a possible person seen drifting ...
the water every day’. The best time for a sensible swim, says Richard, is slack water and he goes int ...
Calais opposite. Actually it’s Snodland on the Isle of Grain, you can see the chimney.’ Then I ask him where ...
feel you’re really at the end of the Thames there, once you’re around Wallasea. It feels like Clacton and Marg ...
wanted to swim from the pier head, his horrified reaction was, ‘ah no! You can’t swim the shipping channel, ...
walking on the mud club’. Having filled me with horror stories, Richard takes me to another room, as big as a war ...
afternoon with the Chalkwell Redcaps Open Water Swimming Club. I fancied a pleasant dip; now all the way ba ...
24 Crowstone Swim ...
‘If you love something you don’t want to keep it to yourself’ Iain Keenan, founder of the Chalkwell Redcaps Wh ...
morning is breathtaking. Gone is the mud, now there is an ocean of water. The beach, however, looks dull ...
service that deep water is cold enough, even on a hot summer’s day, ‘to take your breath away, possib ...
sand is as dark as Demerara sugar and I’m so intent on following directions to the Chalkwell Redcaps hut that ...
Stone just above Staines. There still remain questions as to where the Thames ends, though not nearly as man ...
A ceremony held at the Crowstone in July 1849 when a pledge was given to preserve the City of London. In Victorian times th ...
«
86
87
88
89
90
91
92
93
94
95
»
Free download pdf