Water-babies of the Thames,
Welcome to the last of the
Thames winter swims which also marks our entry to the Lower
Thames. This month we have the special appearance of Mrs Jo from
the Emerald Isle. Jet Setter that she is, we've changed our swim
to Saturday so that she can join us.
This month's swim is the last part of Swim 61 from Michael
Worthington's I♥
the Thames and is 1.4km long.Only another 14 to go to
Teddington and the end of the non tidal Thames.
We will meet at 11:00am on SATURDAY 16th March at the
National Trust The Pound car park at Cookham (that's its name -
parking is free!), here:
A brisk walk to the edge of the National Trust Cock Marsh (that's its name, so I'll use it if
want to . . .) and slide in to the river at the tree
where we exited last time, here or hereabouts:
We will swim down towards Cookham
Lock and here's where it gets
tricky, so listen carefully: IMPORTANT NAVIGATION
NOTE
Go under the bridge at Cookham using the
2nd arch from the right. There is a choice
of three visible
channels - take the middle narrow one
that leads to the lock.
The other two lead to weirs and are
not recommended.
(There is also a fourth channel to the far right but that will not be
immediately apparent - you don't want
to go down that one either.)
I
recommend that you
check this out for
your self before
the swim from foot path
over Cookham bridge
on your way to the
meeting point.
Swim down
the long lock cut -
around 0.6km with out
the current assist we
have become use to over
the winter, where we
will exit at the lock, here:
Lunch
is booked at The
Ferry at
Cookham bridge
for 2pm, where
we ate last
time. (Hoping
the service
will be
prompter
than last time
- but the food
was good once
it arrived.):
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