Every Year we take 2 vans and 2 trailers full of Canoes and Kayaks over to Talkin Tarn to help with their Water Day. This year it was in June.
The lake is really handy being 10 miles from the shop, but close to the A69, It has full changing rooms, an Excellent cafe, lots of parking available and a lake small enough not to lose everyone, but with space to move and paddle round.
We ran the sessions as fairly fixed 30 minute groups with about 24 people in each, but if anyone wanted to demo specifcic boats, we could also accomodate this too.
With 4 staff on the water at any time, we managed to get 6 sessions done, so in total we have about 200 people on the water it seemed summer was here, as it turned out it was one of the few sunny days we have had watch out for an indian summer soon! The sessions were very relaxed with a mix of first timers, and more experienced paddlers, some informal instruction took place but mostly everyone was left to get to grips with the sport in their own time, After 5 minutes everyone was happily paddling in straight lines, or just enjoying beiong on the water on such a nice day
We will be arranging another day probably in 2009, look out for it soon !
