Monday - Today we took our kayak out for the first time. We bought it at the end of last year from a shop near the ferry in Bowness who were selling off this season's hire fleet. It has a scratch or two, but otherwise was a great bargain at about £100 less that I could find a second hand Malibu on Ebay which paid for the paddles and and seats.
We drove to Coniston as there are easier launch sites there than on Windermere (where all the places where you can launch either seem to be private or have no parking within a few hundred yards). At first Thomas was a bit wary of our going too deep, but was soon raring to go. After a few minutes practice we decided to cross the lake. Before long we were paddling with the same rhythym and we made it across and back far more quickly that I had expected. The views of the Coniston fells on the way back were striking. The Old Man of Coniston with its "face" especially impressed Thomas. My hands are now quite sore from the friction caused by paddling on my thumb joints (probably doing it wrong ;-)
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