Re: Peel Island


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Posted by Geoff Emerson on September 16, 2004 at 00:23:32 from 81.86.234.215 user geoffe.

In Reply to: Re: Peel Island posted by Robert Hill on August 06, 2004 at 00:18:49:

Funnily enough, when it came to it, I didn't land on Peel Island either. We hired a boat, and had a lovely time cruising so slowly that we were only just moving fast enough to steer her. Unfortunately I asked at the boating centre about landing on the island and they pointed out that one of their rules says that we had to stay at least 100 yards from the shore. Having been told, I felt (and my wife would have insisted) that we had to comply with the rule (even though it was expressed in a way that suggested they wouldn't really mind as long as I didn't hurt the boat).

Oddly, when we got close, it was quite busy and the idea of turning up in a motor boat with all those people there would have been far too pic-nic-ish and not at all in the correct Swallows & Amazons manner, so cruising on past to investigate the foot of the lake, pausing just long enough to take a few pictures, didn't seem much of a hardship at all.

It has all just whetted my appetite, though. I'm getting more and more tempted to go back next year with a boat of my own to visit the island in the proper spirit of adventure, perhaps in the evening when all the natives/seals have gone home!


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