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Many thanks to Big Andy for organising another successful meet.
The aim was to Canoe down the Wye Valley at the peak of the Autumn colours with expedition base camp next to a decent pub for some great evening banter.
In true Loony meet style, the horrendous weather forecast put a lot of people off.
But the actual day was bright and sunny. Just about perfect apart from being ten degrees C cooler than just a few days earlier
There were eight of us on the water plus two non-canoeists.
I was the only one brave enough to take my DSLR onto the water (read into that what you will), so it's going to be interesting to see what the others took. Simon had his trusty little Olympus which we have already seen good results from on past meets and Si took his X10 plus a set of graduated filters.
Like I said - gonna be interesting.
After the canoeing most people had time to take photos from the banks and Yat Rock viewpoint and some people even found the energy for a bit of light painting.
Hence I can say with confidence that lots more quality images will be following shortly
To the others - feel free to add you images into this thread or start you own as you see fit
To the tune of Duelling Banjo's....
This is just after we launched headed downriver towards the deeper valleys.
You can just make out the first group which set off shortly before us.
Sherpa Shirley and Big Andy brought their own canoes - the tippy over flavour. Ours were rafted together for stability and had proper (but cold and hard) seats.
We saw two Kingfishers and countless Swans.
We didn't do much paddling as the current did nearly all the work for us.
Apart from the lively banter, it was utterly tranquil.
As we approached Symonds Yat, a swarm of little canoes struggled upstream as we shot past drifting with the current.
It was a memorable day (for lots of reasons) and the pub banter in front of a roaring log fire was wonderful!
When's the next meet
TP is great
The aim was to Canoe down the Wye Valley at the peak of the Autumn colours with expedition base camp next to a decent pub for some great evening banter.
In true Loony meet style, the horrendous weather forecast put a lot of people off.
But the actual day was bright and sunny. Just about perfect apart from being ten degrees C cooler than just a few days earlier
There were eight of us on the water plus two non-canoeists.
I was the only one brave enough to take my DSLR onto the water (read into that what you will), so it's going to be interesting to see what the others took. Simon had his trusty little Olympus which we have already seen good results from on past meets and Si took his X10 plus a set of graduated filters.
Like I said - gonna be interesting.
After the canoeing most people had time to take photos from the banks and Yat Rock viewpoint and some people even found the energy for a bit of light painting.
Hence I can say with confidence that lots more quality images will be following shortly
To the others - feel free to add you images into this thread or start you own as you see fit
To the tune of Duelling Banjo's....
This is just after we launched headed downriver towards the deeper valleys.
You can just make out the first group which set off shortly before us.
Sherpa Shirley and Big Andy brought their own canoes - the tippy over flavour. Ours were rafted together for stability and had proper (but cold and hard) seats.
We saw two Kingfishers and countless Swans.
We didn't do much paddling as the current did nearly all the work for us.
Apart from the lively banter, it was utterly tranquil.
As we approached Symonds Yat, a swarm of little canoes struggled upstream as we shot past drifting with the current.
It was a memorable day (for lots of reasons) and the pub banter in front of a roaring log fire was wonderful!
When's the next meet
TP is great
