Despite the ever present threat of rain from up in the Llanberis Pass (at the end of the Lake in the photo below), we stayed dry for our day of Canoeing on Llyn Padarn. There was however, a very strong wind (bordering on a gale), blowing down the lake towards us. We tucked into the various lagoons for shelter during the morning, then in the afternoon inched our way up into the wind.
As instructor for the group, I was paddling solo and had to trim my boat by sitting right on the front to make any progress without being turned by the wind. To maintain forward progress, in the end we had to make raft by tieing two boats together to harness the power of three people, but despite our best efforts, mother nature won the battle as we were left treading water in the wind, then eventually pushed backwards! We made the most of the return journey by hoisting a sail and zoomed back with the wind behind us!
Met up with some friends at the Coffee Shop afterwards; the calm and chilled-ness of which was a good antidote to the franticness of the day.
We finished with a walk along the pier at Bangor, where we got great views of the sunset on the mountains.
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