Re: The dream


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Posted by Duncan on December 06, 2002 at 12:35:37 from 152.163.188.167 user Duncan.

In Reply to: Re: The dream posted by David Shelton on December 06, 2002 at 08:04:57:

As kids, me and my brother and our family used to holiday (amongst other places) at first Ambleside and later Bowness and try and find places from the SA books. In the end, it has never really mattered to me whether OUR Wild Cat Island (Ramp Holme, which we sailed to with some other friends, and explored one very windy day when we nearly capsized!) and OUR other spots were the ones AR had in mind... We also had a couple of fantastic holidays on the Broads very much using the Coot Club map of the Northern Rivers (we never went much south of Acle...) Memories like night sailing (not to be recommended of course!) on Salhouse and Barton Broads (in the case of Barton we timed our tacks by when we could hear the water splashing on the great wooden posts!) mingle with the dreams of all the things we wished we'd done.

Now I'm supposedly a bit old for all that (not a bit of it!!!) I still go up to the Lakes whenever I can and though, some years back we had to sell our boats, I get on the water whenever I can (a little motor-boat on Windermere, the Gondola on Coniston, who cares?) and when I'm walking the hills near the lakes I'm always imagining I'm back on Amazon (our dinghy that we had on Windermere; the imaginatively named Swallow was based in Yorkshire, although we did sail her in Norfolk a couple of times) and running goose-winged from OUR Holly Howe Bay down to Ramp Holme thinking 'Captain John didn't have to worry about these ferry lines!!!'

Duncan


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