Monday 21st April 2008
Proving myself to be Billy No Mates, I refused to let a beautiful spare morning go by without a paddle, even if it is was to be a brief jaunt before work. With a firm northerly force 4 (increasing to force 5 while I was paddling), I left Lee on Solent heading east on the well beaten path to Stokes Bay.
I find it interesting that I still find myself paddling faster when solo. Perhaps this is because there is no social side to these trips or maybe just because there is a different purpose. What that actually is I don't know. To get there? To ponder the blue yonder? Either way, a dose of solitude and being one with the sea is a refreshing experience now and then. It reveals your vulnerabilities, so easily ignored when paddling in company.
Punching against the tide, I still managed to make my lunch spot in forty minutes, 2.25 miles along the coast at Number 2 Battery. After a fifteen minute stop, I went back the other way with the tide whisking me along, back to the put-in in 25 minutes.
Unfortunately, having to go to work spoils so much in life...
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