DAY 10:
Petra returned to Prague today.
Richard is on his own again pushing for Prague and therefore once again the narrative is getting a bit more concise than when she sticks around and then lets her imagination run free writing the blog!
Richard writes:
"I left the Velky Vir campsite after a very good break and I left the car under the eyes of Tomas, the top class chef who is relaxing as the manager of one the camp restaurants. Orlik dam was full of boats and naked sailors."
(no exaggeration...yachts of people going full-monty left Richard moderately surprised, his voice on the phone later in the evening clearly indicated that)
"The break had done me a lot of good and I was very quickly at the dam itself. For the uninitiated it is not obvious to see where the crossing point is, however I eventually took move over after a 3 way conversation with Petra.
They use a large blue cage on a venicular on the right hand side of the dam. It appears to operate from 0800 to 1700 daily. It was a painless operation and I was very quickly on my way to the Kamyk dam (yet another water reservoir the Vltava Cascade consists of).
Again the crossing point is on the right side of the dam but this time they use a lock system, again painless. I was heading for a campsite at Permon but this seems to be no longer in operation so I paddled on to km 126 where I am camping wild.
A good run of 27.8 km. From 1230 to 2130. A quick supper, write the blog and sleep. It is interesting that the water here is covered in a horrible slime and it appears oily and black... Not pleasant.
I look forward to moving further up the Slapy dam tomorrow."
1 comment:
Richard, I hope you'll manage easily the pretty long piece of Slapy dam. For sure it´s a hard work, I keep my fingers!
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