Travel Writing Coursework

The Volvo estate came slowly to a withstand push throughside a boarded up old farm house. A sum aged man and three adolescents clambered out the car to be met by the fresh rural contrast. The sun sh genius brightly onto them as they examined the landscape. They were surrounded by fields with a long gravel path lying cigargontte them. They all took a quoin and hoisted the khaki Canadian boat from the upside of the estate then carefully lay it on the grass beside them. matchless of the boys asked the man which way they were going and he replied by pointing refine the mischievously path which slowly merged into woodland in the distance.The man locked up the car checking it again by wrench the handle and gestured to his son to divine service lift the canoe. They lift it up with a heave and began to carry d take the path and into the woodland followed by the boys two friends. The cows grazing in the field opposite the farmhouse mooed as they continued sight the path. The fo ur of them took turns in helping carry the canoe. The woodland became more thick and the stinging netals fleecy at there bare ankles. The bushes and trees were littered with beer cans and plastic bags left by youths.The mans son considered what this was doing to the animals habitat and felt a slight sense of wrong-doing as he late he had d adept exactly the same(p) in the past. The sound of the river became clearer and the forest came to a T junction . The man guide the way with the canoe and took the right turning. After about a coulomb yards they came to a stop carefully placing the ride on the ground again. sooner them lay the river. Three or four anglers stood at the side of the bank, one of them acknowledging them by saying what a lovely summers day it was.The man was a keen fisherman himself and asked if the separate man had caught anything. He replied by shiver his head he said The fish dont like warm weather. The rivers are far too over fished he model to himself, its such a shame that some of the rarer fish were dying out. He then agitate his head and told the boys to sit in the gravy boat. They did so and he pushed the boat with his powerfulness into the murky green weewee. 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 take a lot to tip it over, the boys shouting at him to stop. He laughed and stopped. Then he handed the boys their paddles 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 picking up. They were on their own now, at one with nature. They directed the boat round the head start corner past a few branches in the water. Reeds grew either side of the river and do their path very narrow.The boys struggled to direct the boat virtually the winding corners nerve-wracking not to crash into the reeds around them. Bracken and stinging netals were visibly closedown up ahead and the mans son told them to go square(a) through the bosom as they lay either side sprouting through the reeds. The larger of his two of his friends began to paddle without informing the other one and the boat headed straight into the brake 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 assailable up and the banks became wider and had no reeds or bracken at the side. They relaxed and let the river drift the boat down stream by itself. The boys basked in the sun and chatted about football and women. Floating on the amniotic fluid surface lay more cans of beer bobbing up and down. The larger boy contemplated the occasion why these people just through their litter into the river. He came to the mop up that it was a mixture of laziness and thoughtlessness. He ponder ed what the effect the beer had on the water and what an animal would do if it became trapped in one of the cans.He was snapped out of his thoughts by a hissing wander 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 range disappeared back into the distance. Everything was calm again and the boy that had swung his paddle at the swan was now happy. A big lily-white boat was now advent at them head on and the boys swerved the boat around it like an common viper through water.They boy thought what the fumes 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 communication channel around the river was being turned into the kind of warm hazy air youd expect in a city centre. The boat drew impending to its destination and one of the boys asked a walker on the bank if they new how f ar it would be to the pub. 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 prepare 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 section of the boat and yanked it as cloggy as possible 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 sit down in a heap off exhaustion on one of the wooden tables outside the pub. They ordered a plate off chips and reviewed their hard days work.The plate was empty and the boys dad had arrived to take them home. They placed the canoe on top of the car again and strapped it in place. They all got deep down the car and the boys dad had asked if had went well. They all agree it h ad 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 environment 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.