Time to get some pics up

Several people have now asked when I'm going to write about the swim, so sorry it has taken me a while to get to. I haven't found the ability to write about it yet (and not sure I have even now) but I still walk round with a warm glow inside. Even though Botany council has been doing its best to ruin it.

So a few pics of the days leading up to the swim.

John and I arrived in Dover on the afternoon of Saturday 11th September, with the first possible day of the tide window being Tuesday 14th. Sunday and Monday morning it looked as flat as a millpond, although a front was due to move through some time Monday afternoon. France was clearly visible.

All the cliff top pics are taken from just across from the caravan park. Here, we'd gone out to look for a swimmer who had recently set off.

The front most definitely did move through on the Monday afternoon. My pilot, Eddie, had taken a relay out at 1am Monday and managed to get them across before the weather turned, but had a Force 8 on the trip back, making it a long and rough crossing for all. The wind howled round the caravan all night and all the next day. It was a day to curl up with a book (or check the weather forecast for the hundredth time.... that day....)

When cabin fever (or caravan fever) set in later that day we went for a walk at Samphire Hoe, an area made up of reclaimed land from when the Channel Tunnel was excavated. From the car park, you can walk along the sea wall to a beach at the far end, from where some pilots start their channel swims.

Just a wee bit windy.

Doesn't that look inviting....?

Dover Harbour in the distance.