Way back, I did a rough guesstimate and figured that the book covered about 972 km of paddling. The actual final figure is … well, I can’t be bothered to go through the chapters and add it all up right now, life is too short. For a bit of work avoidance this morning (as a diversion from annotating lifeboat and Coastwatch stations on maps) I did however play around with Memory Map and do some measuring. I found that I’ve paddled at least 1100 km around the South West coast this year. That isn’t a particularly remarkable figure, but I was interested to note that the majority of trips were short; 16km in length, or less. In the past, my sea trips have usually involved pointing from one headland to another, clocking up longish daily mileages, all on my lonesome.
Paddle shorter distances, with friends – see more, have more fun.
Off out paddling again this weekend. I could only put Bournemouth Bay off for so long …
