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<font size="-1"><font face="Arial">Greetings Sun worshippers -
Summer is here at last. Hopeful it will hold out to the
weekend. Currently, (pun intended) we have the best of both
worlds - warm weather with lots of water making progress easy
- as long as you're going downstream. Fortunately that's just
what we're doing.<br>
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This weekend we will swimming under another of Brunel's Great
Western viaduct masterpieces at Gatehampton and continuing
down past the Beale Wildlife Park. Might be a potential ice
cream stop? (Australian style waterproof money could be
handy.) After that we head to the pedestrian inaccessible
Whitchurch lock where we will have to walk around and jump
back in for a short swim under the second of only two toll
bridges on the Thames (Remember the other Toll bridge at
Swinford back in September last year?) to jump out at
Pangbourne Meadows where we are parked.<br>
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We'll then repair to the Greyhound pub in Whitchurch for
lunch.<br>
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<b>We'll be meeting at Pangbourne River Meadow </b></font></font><b><font
size="-1"><font face="Arial">Car Park at 10:00am on Sunday 29
July</font></font></b><font size="-1"><font face="Arial"><b>:</b><br>
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<small>Parking is free on Sundays</small></b><br>
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<small>We'll Shuttle to Goring and park at the same car park we
finished at on the last swim:</small><br>
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moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://goo.gl/maps/T1GO">http://goo.gl/maps/T1GO</a></span><br>
<small>Parking is free here as well, on Sundays</small><br>
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<small>and walk down to the beach Entry Point that we exited at on
the last swim:</small><br>
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moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://goo.gl/maps/8x2q">http://goo.gl/maps/8x2q</a><br>
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</span><small>There is no access, pedestrian or otherwise at
Whitchurch Lock, so we'll swim to the lock walk around, get in
and swim under Whitchurch Toll bridge and exit in Pangbourne
River meadow here:</small><br>
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href="http://goo.gl/maps/4scg">http://goo.gl/maps/4scg</a><br>
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<small><span>There may be a challenge for walkers as the Thames
path leaves the river at Gatehampton and heads for the
Chiltern Hills only to rejoin at Whitchurch. The tow path
crosses to the other side at Gatehampton via a long defunct
ferry. We could consider dropping walkers off on the tow path
side on the shuttle up BUT that means peeps will need to
arrange for waterproof bags to carry their car keys.<br>
<br>
Jeremy and Sef and the Basking Sunfish of the Thames.</span></small><i><small><span><br>
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target="_blank">Oxford@outdoorswimmingsociety.com</a><br>
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