Wednesday 17th June: Waiting on weather

Today was clearly going to be far too windy for paddling, so I took a leisurely breakfast, in the course of which it became clear that John Gosling is another example of the rule that people who have really achieved things often don't feel the need to brag about it. With a bit of gentle probing, "I've done a bit of paddling" turned out to stand for first descents of Everest and K2, whitewater paddling on the Orinoco (5 miles wide; 10 metre stoppers), quite a lot of slalom paddling, and a subsequent career in the industry. What a guy.