Well, it’s all over now. The three of us successfully paddled our open canoe from Avonmouth on the Severn estuary to the O2 Arena and on to the Thames Barrier. It’s now time to get back to normality: Nigel has taken the canoe back to Brookbank, Gordon has given the throwlines back to NCKC (Northampton Canoe Club) and I’ve started working again :-(
We’ll be updating things over the next few days as we get all our photo’s etc. together so please do pop back here but in the meantime this link is a Google Earth view of our route over the whole 8 days – it’s a large file so may take a little while to download (when prompted, either ‘Save’ it or ‘Open’ it straight away with Google Earth). The picture below is what you’ll see but you can zoom in and out and ‘fly’ our route if you open the link in Google Earth (oh, I know it’s sad but I love it!!).
If you want even more detail (and let’s face it, who could resist), click on the individual links pasted into the entries for each day, mind you, don’t let anybody know you did this as you’ll immediately be branded a geek – or worse – but I don’t believe there is yet a register you have to sign so, go on, enjoy yourself.
If you still have the will to live when you get to the bottom of the page and you wish to read even more, please click on ‘Older Posts’ and it will take you off to earlier days of exciting adventures… yawn….. :-)
If you can afford to, it would be good if you could support any of the three charities we’re raising money for (Parkinson’s UK, Cancer Research UK and Help for Heroes), you can do so by clicking on the links at the top left of the page. If you don’t have much money, no problem but please do a good turn for somebody – there’s always someone less fortunate than us.
Some of the trip factoids are:
| Trip length: | 8 Days |
| Distance: | 182.22 mi |
| Avg Distance: | 22.78 mi/day |
| Max Distance: | 28.43 mi |
| Total time: | 60:30:58 h:m:s |
| Avg paddling time per day: | 7:33:52/day |
| Avg Speed: | 3.0 mph |
| Number of locks: | 128 |
| Avg locks per day: | 16 /day |
| Max locks (one day): | 43 (day 3) |
| Elevation gain: | 869m |
| Elevation loss: | 854m |
| Max elevation gain (one day): | 242m |
| Max elevation loss (one day): | 243m |
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