A few of us headed off from Weymouth early this morning with the notion of paddling around the Isle of Portland. It’s not quite an island in reality, as it’s connected to Dorset by the pebbles of Chesil Beach. This is a tricky trip to get right, as the tide flows all over the place and hence you need to time your arrival at the southern tip carefully. Furthermore, any kind of swell makes landing on steep Chesil Beach (to portage across) pretty hair-raising.
Launching, we hit lumpy swell right away and the wind was fairly stiff…so the full trip around Portland was off. Instead we ambled around sheltered Portland Harbour, lunching on the Isle and playing in the surf and swell outside. This was more fun than it should have been. A few folk got wet.
We were joined by Bertie Beckram, who is a local.
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