{"id":4319,"date":"2015-01-20T10:20:20","date_gmt":"2015-01-20T10:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/?p=4319"},"modified":"2015-01-20T10:21:12","modified_gmt":"2015-01-20T10:21:12","slug":"on-a-canal-in-a-canoe-secret-adventures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/on-a-canal-in-a-canoe-secret-adventures\/","title":{"rendered":"On a Canal in a Canoe – Secret Adventures"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It being the middle of January, and therefore getting quite cold, what better way of spending a Monday evening could there be than paddling a canoe around London?<\/p>\n

This was an organised trip via “Secret Adventures<\/a>“, an internet Meetup group. We set off from Moo Canoes’ base in Limehouse, heading up Limehouse Cut heading in the direction of Stratford, before passing 3 Mills Studios, continuing up the Lee Navigation, ignoring turn-offs that are still closed due to post-Olympic development until we reached the lock just adjacent to the back of the Olympic stadium near Fish Island, before continuing a little further up to Crate Brewery & Pizzeria. <\/p>\n

It was good fun, and not too hard on the upper body! The well organised event did a good job pairing people up for the boats and ensuring we had the basics before hitting the water. I did manage to fairly soak my legs however – something to do with being 6’2″ and not being able to canoe with my legs flat. And although I kept the camera dry, I fear the Lee Navigation must now have a Lowe Pro camera case (thankfully otherwise empty) to add to its disturbingly large collection of junk. <\/p>\n

The pictures I took tended to look better on the back of my camera than they did on a 23” monitor. Using ISO 6400 quite a lot, a certain amount of noise reduction has needed to be applied. <\/p>\n

Anyway, as well as these photos, there are more over on Flickr<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Highly recommended!<\/p>\n

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