Posted by Laurence Monkhouse on August 30, 2005 at 16:18:39 from 82.7.160.72 user Laurence_.
In Reply to: Least favourite among the books posted by Colin on August 30, 2005 at 15:35:22:
I'm sorry for you, then. It is perhaps the book whose atmosphere can most nearly be recaptured today
We have ourselves just come back from Secret Water, anchoring for three days in a creek near where they saw the seal. Not a single boat or person in sight - at least at low water - throughout an August Bank Holiday!
We did the North West Passage - Blackberry is no longer really an island but a line of isolated bits of marsh - saw a dozen or so of George's descendants, and at last found the North East Passage, very narrow but exactly as shown on the Map. Nancy and Peggy were brave to take a big dinghy through at neaps.
A complete contrast to the crowds which I have no doubt were on Wild Cat Island or at Horning this weekend.