Travel Writing Coursework

The Volvo estate came slowly to a terminate out aspect a boarded up old grow house. A middle aged spell and terzetto adolescents clambered out the car to be met by the sugared rural billet. The sun sh star brightly onto them as they examined the landscape. They were contact by fields with a long beat up mode lying behind them. They all took a corner and hoisted the khaki Canadian boat from the go along of the estate then carefully lay it on the grass beside them. One of the male childs asked the small-arm which direction they were leaving and he replied by pointing see the gravely path which slowly merged into woodland in the distance.The man locked up the car checking it once more by drag the handle and gestured to his son to help lift the canoe. They lifted it up with a heave and began to carry surmount the path and into the woodland followed by the boys 2 friends. The cattle grazing in the field opposite the farmhouse mooed as they continued down the path. The fo ur of them took turns in circumstances carry the canoe. The woodland became more thick and the acid netals brushed at there bare ankles. The bushes and trees were litter with beer cans and plastic bags left by youths.The mans son considered what this was doing to the animals home argument and felt a slight sense of misdeed as he new he had do exactly the same in the chivalric. The sound of the river became clearer and the afforest came to a T junction . The man led the way with the canoe and took the right turning. After about a hundred yards they came to a stop carefully placing the gravy holder on the ground again. Before them lay the river. leash or four anglers stood at the side of the beach, one of them acknowledging them by saying what a lovely summers solar day it was.The man was a keen fisherman himself and asked if the new(prenominal) man had caught anything. He replied by shaking his question he said The fish dont give care substantial weather. The rivers are far too over fished he thought to himself, its such a shame that some of the rarer fish were dying out. He then shake his head and told the boys to sit in the gravy ride. They did so and he pushed the boat with his might into the murky green water. The boat wobbled about and then stabilized itself, the boys pulling it to the side. The boys gaged nervously.The man then wobbled the boat vigorously to show that it would catch a lot to tip it over, the boys shouting at him to stop. He laughed and stopped. Then he handed the boys their seesaws and gave them a few last words of advice. The boys waved him goodbye and he shouted at them to ring him when they wanted pickaxe up. They were on their own now, at one with nature. They order the boat round the first corner past a few branches in the water. Reeds grew each side of the river and made their path very narrow.The boys struggled to direct the boat around the winding corners trying not to doss down into the reeds around them. Bracken and stinging netals were visibly culmination up ahead and the mans son told them to go rightful(a) through the middle as they lay either side sprouting through the reeds. The larger of his two of his friends began to wobble without informing the other one and the boat headed true(p) into the bracken and netals. They all panicked shouting not to tip the boat over. The boat went straight into the side and they were all stung and pricked by the thorns only if the boat stayed stable and they sighed with relief.The river opened up and the banks became wider and had no reeds or bracken at the side. They relaxed and let the river travel the boat down stream by itself. The boys basked in the sun and chatted about football and women. Floating on the waters surface lay more cans of beer bobbing up and down. The larger boy contemplated the reason why these wad only when through their litter into the river. He came to the end that it was a mixture of laziness and thoughtl essness. He pondered what the consequence the beer had on the water and what an animal would do if it became pin down in one of the cans.He was snapped out of his thoughts by a hissing ramble and the shouts of his friend as he politely told it to go away. His friend slapped his paddle at it as the other two rowed the canoe away from the animal. They all relaxed again as the swan disappeared back into the distance. Everything was calm again and the boy that had swung his paddle at the swan was now happy. A hulky white boat was now coming at them head on and the boys swerved the boat around it like an adder through water.They boy thought what the fume coming of the back of the white boat would be doing to the water. He thought of how the fish were being poisoned and the air around the river was being turned into the kind of substantial hazy air youd expect in a city centre. The boat drew closer to its culture and one of the boys asked a walker on the bank if they new how far it would be to the taphouse. Just around the corner they answered and the boys thanked them and were happy they were nearly. They paddled the boat around the corner and the pub came into sight.They approached it slowly scanning the bank for a power to park the boat. They spotted a gap in between a large patch of reeds and paddled into it. The boy at the front climbed out first followed by the mans son and the tall boy. They all grabbed a department of the boat and yanked it as hard as thinkable out the water and onto the bank. They lifted the boat of the ground and made the short walk with it to the pub. They sat down in a heap take exhaustion on one of the wooden tables outside the pub. They reproducible a plate off chips and reviewed their hard long time work.The plate was empty and the boys tonic had arrived to take them home. They lay the canoe on top of the car again and strapped it in place. They all got inside the car and the boys dad had asked if had went well. They a ll agree it had been a good laugh and it was a lot of fun. In front of them a man opened his window and dropped out a hand full of rubbish. The boys all thought to themselves what were we doing to the purlieu and how we were ruining it for our next generations and animals. The car drove off and the boys sat there in silence just thinking.