The weather's lovely and may still be lovely next Sunday as we push on towards Oxford, hopefully arriving at the outskirts at Port Meadow by the end of October and before the first snow.  In this penultimate leg to our intermediate goal of Oxford we will be swimming from Cassington Cut to Kings lock, both locations are a bit out in the sticks so we will have a pre-swim warm up walk, followed by the swim and concluding with a post swim warm down walk. This corresponds to the remainder of swim #27 in Michael Worthington's book, 'I Love the Thames' and will be around 3km.

We're meeting in the car park of the Trout Inn at Godstow / Lower Wolvercote at 10:30am on Sunday 9th October 2011 - Green Arrow marks the spot:

http://g.co/maps/6k5ub

From there we will walk along the Oxford Greenbelt Way that conveniently cuts the corner of the meandering Thames, skirts the Wytham Great Wood and joins the Thames path at our entry point opposite the Cassington Cut. Getting in here (another green arrow):

http://g.co/maps/2wghd

(Need to scroll north to find green arrow due to the vagaries of Google Maps remote locations.)

We will pass the joining of the Evenlode tributary - will there be a cooling effect?

If we continue to have the logistical support of our excellent bank side crew we can stop for late elevenses at what looks like a beach from Google Satellite about halfway along just here - before the S bend in the river:

http://g.co/maps/h5x4c

Carry on to the our exit point at Kings Lock:

http://g.co/maps/u98h6

Where we can walk back along the tow path to the cars at the Trout and have a spot of lunch, outside on the terrace in the glorious sunshine:

http://www.thetroutoxford.co.uk/

Do come along, bring a friend and make the most of the late summer.

Sef and Jeremy and the basking barbel of the crystal clear Thames

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