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River survey at Bucks Mills, followed by a walk.

Paddle Boarding session at Halsinger.

Clearing around trees at Loxhore orchard.

Exploration at Valley of Rocks

On Sunday we walked from Shalford Park to Guildford town centre along the river Wey. We noticed a sewage smelling puddle near a man hole on the footpath next to the river. We reported it to Thames Water. They have a pollution desk dealing with river pollution and they attended to the site today (Tuesday) to ensure the issue was resolved.

HOW LOCKS WORK. The water in the lock is lower than upstream. Put your boat in the lock and tie it up. You shut the downstream gates and slowly open the upstream gates to let water in. When the water is the same level as upstream untie your boat and motor out. Millmead Lock was built in 1762. it is the first lock on the Godalming Navigation. The wooden gates have been replaced many times since then, but the bricks are 260 years old! They only use oak wood for the gates because it is less likely to rot and lasts longer.

Teddie has been practising writing sentences so he decided to record the highlights of the trip last week in a writing frame with pictures. He was very proud of his neat handwriting and I was very impressed with his sentence structure! We found it a good way to recap on and understand what we saw that day.

Afternoon spend looking for all kinds of stones, fossils and shells