This was my shortest day – just 1.5 miles. I had a lazy start with oatmeal for breakfast before starting on the river at 10:30am. I arrived at Chertsey lock around 1:00pm and paddled to the right bank below the lock and across the spillway from the weir. I could see the campsite at the top of the bank but I couldn’t see anywhere for me to tie up the canoe and have easy access to the campsite. So I tied the canoe next to the bank where there was a fallen tree with its trunk making a route up to the top of the bank. After struggling up to the top, fighting with stinging nettles, I was confronted by a fence around the camping field. I fought my way along the fence through more stinging nettles until I decided to climb over and find someone who could tell me where I should land my canoe. Of course, as soon as I was over the fence an employee came over and told me I should not have climbed over the fence. I explained my situation and he directed me to the backwater that gave easy access to the campground. The two pictures show the entrance to the backwater from the river and it leading up to the campsite at the end.
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