Sunday saw about 20 of our members travelling to Kent to enjoy a paddle down the River Medway. We paddled from Tonbridge to Yalding, approximately 13km through the day, with a stop for lunch (and a few breaks for snacks!) on the way.
For those who haven’t paddled this stretch, there are six locks on the way, each of which has a canoe chute to enable canoes and kayaks to safely navigate the weirs without having to get out of the boats.
Each chute is graded in difficulty. It starts with easy drops graded as 1 (blue), progresses through some medium drops labelled 2 (red), before a final mighty drop graded 3 (black).
There needed to be a short break to bail out some of the canoes after this, before a gentle paddle to the tea shop at Yalding.