Meridian Canoe Club

I have moved Mark's post from News to Trips and Events as many haven't seen it!

Hi All,
Maidstone CC will be doing a paddle from Queenborough to Burntwick Island on Saturday 18th August, and have asked if any of your club members would like to join them.

Trip Details:
Date: Saturday 18th August
Meet time: 11:00am
Meet location: car park at Queenborough N 51 deg 25 mins, E 0 44.5
Distance: approx 8 miles (with some tidal assistance)
Boats: any boat is suitable for this trip, (it will not be a fast paddle)
Food/Drink: Bring packed lunch and drinks
Coaches: various from Maidstone CC
Organiser: Geoff Orford geofforford@sky.com

What’s there: Burnwick Island was used as a dump for bottles in the 19th Century and the remains (not all broken) can be found lying on the beach but excavating for them is damaging to the environment. The Island is mostly covered at high tide but there are some ruins of barrack buildings that can be paddle through. Quite an interesting paddle and not too demanding.
No restrictions on numbers.

This is the video of the trip:-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsXJFQOjSSU
and these are the photos:-
http://www.trekandrun.com/features/cano ... /trip.html

So far Kathryne and myself are interested.
Anyone else?
I know there are problems with this site and if you can't make a post, I'll be at the pool on Thursday and the lake on Saturday.

This was a wonderful trip with glorious weather despite, for Kathryn and myself, getting off to a difficult start.
We planned to arrive 30 minutes earlier than expected but were delayed by one and a half hours by the M2 being closed just before our turn-off by a motorcycle accident and the arrival of the Kent Air Ambulance.

We eventually arrived at Queenborough car park at 11.35 and could see the flotilla heading towards Chetney Marsh (approx 20minutes paddling), so we decided to catch them up.
We passed the appropriately named Deadman's Island, nothing there unless you are a mud-a-holic and eventually caught up with the group at Burntwick Island and over lunch introduced ourselves to members of Maidstone, Pirates, Tonbridge, WAM, and Seapoint Canoe Clubs.

To view pictures, right click and click on view image.



The return trip was rather surreal.
The island we had paddled around was now flooded so we could paddle across and I found a great venue for next year's AGM....





Also due to the rising tide we could now paddle through Deadman's Island.



Once ashore all paddlers agreed this was a good, well organised trip and thanks are due to Geoff Orford at Maidstone CC for not only for organising the trip but also for inviting members of other clubs to join them.

This is the link to the other Medway Estuary trips.
http://www.discoveryourestuary.com/cano ... /page.html
Let's hope this is the start of more Inter-Club Trips.