Downstream

(Jeff_L) #1

across the incoming tide. It
doesn’t seem to be helping
me much; instead I’m being
buffeted from the right,
waves constantly slapping
against my face. It’s not a
difficult swim, but I am
swallowing a lot of water and
I think of Norman Derham in
the 1920s and then more
recently Peter Rae and
Wouter Van Staden and how
they set off to cross the entire
estuary.

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