I had a little run down the North Tyne today from Chollerford to Acomb today. The North Tyne is a grade II/III run in the North East of England and in paddling circles is probably best known as the main venue for the Tyne Tour.
A week ago the water levels had been up and down like a Yo-Yo but had steadied and leveled off over the course of the last few days. Water levels were 0.88 on the gauge and remained static throughout the course of the run.
For my good friend TM this was his first taste of real white water and water levels were ideal.
Today was a one car affair which necessitated me dropping the car off at Acomb and walking/hitching back up. After around 1 mile I was picked up by a group of paddlers from Coquet Canoe Club in Amble (many thanks).
The weather was pretty good with both a mild air temperature and fairly good water temperature, but quite a thick mist lingered in the air until mid afternoon.
During the course of the paddle I carried a GoPro Black Edition and Silver Edition. The black on my lid and the silver on the boat.
Rather than shoot video I decided to test them side by side taking images every 30 secs. This is quite a hit and miss affair and it is really interesting to see what you end up with when you download from the cards. Both cameras were running the same Micro SDHC cards, had full batteries with wifi switched off. During the course of today the silver had taken 278 images and I had to switch off at the end and the black took 197 and the battery was dead. Very interesting. All the images with the nose of my Liquid Logic Stomper in them were taken with the GoPro Silver edition.
Hope you had a good paddle, I am one of the others from Couquet club, a couple of us tested the depth of the water also, not very warm is it? Happy Paddling
Hi Paul, it was great level. Tony did well making it unscathed until the just after the drop in to Wardens Gorge. I will be uploading the rest of the pics to my Flickr page.
Excellent day we were the group that followed you. We had an eventful trip with one swimmer on the middle of the gorge and a junior on the bottom wave
It was def a great level. We lost you some where around the play wave I reckon. Did you continue to Tyne Green?