I had fun watching this little family this morning - they all hopped into the water, went about 10 yards downstream and then most couldn't get out again so they had to go back upstream to where the bank was lower. There is a concrete platform and a locked wire gate just upstream from here which is now at the back of a nature reserve owned by The Perse School for Girls and was originally built so that the girls could have swimming lessons. The water was sludgy brown and uninviting today (to say nothing of the unseen Weil's Disease) and the girls used to swim in knitted swimsuits but you do still get people who voluntarily jump in and swim this stretch of the river so some of them probably enjoyed it!
Wonderful capture of these geese and goslings! The one on the bank looks as if it has been naughty and is not allowed to swim with the others as a punishment!
what a sweet shot, it mast have been so funny to watch them. and what a great story, I can imagine a pool just for the ladies and amazing no one drowned wit all the wool dragging them down.
I remember the itchiness of wool swimsuits and the way they stretched and sagged and filled up with sand. Horrid things. Mine was a hideous mustard color.
Knitted swimsuits do not sound very appealing.
I suppose it was because grandmothers could knit them?!! However, I think mine was shop bought....
Oh I've got mine! I'm on the beach with my little sis and a tripper (that's what they called a pushchair in Suffolk) but I shan't post it!!!!!