Camping out with the British Canoe Association : with chapters on camping, canoeing, and amateur photography by Hayward John Davey

Author:Hayward, John Davey
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: London ; Liverpool : G. Philip & Son

progress past the lights of Rhyl was a slow one. We lighted the riding light and put it under the stern sheets, where we sat abreast with the sail cover over our legs, thus making a warm air chamber for our legs, as the night was cold. Here we sat through most of the night, chatting and singing until we passed the Point of Aire light, which we found after steering by a pocket compass and the stars. Soon we noticed, by our position with regard to the furnace lights of Mostyn, that we were being rapidly carried up the Dee by the tide, so after running into a buoy, which seemed to get up in the darkness and rush at us, we found it best to row for an hour or more. By this means a good course for Hilbre Isle was made, and a few minutes hard pulling got us round the point and into the tide for Hoylake, where we anchored at 4 o'clock in the morning. It was considered too cold to sleep on board, and we could not go on to Liverpool on this tide, so we went ashore in the hope of finding some good Samaritan to take us in. We hammered at the Lake Inn for some time, but were ordered to ' begone,' so we ' begoned.' The lighthouse seemed the only thing awake and friendly, so for

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