Mud and shopping trolleys
A gentle paddle in the sunshine today from Wapping to Greenwich with a detour up Deptford Creek.
The creek is said to be only navigable a short way up and then only a couple of hours either side of high tide, of course kayaks can probably get in on anything but a spring low tide. Having done it once though I would not rush back. The tide was low and the creek was half mud, half stagnant oily water dotted with navigational hazards like shopping trolleys and abandoned bicycles poking out of the mud.
When we got back out on to the Thames the river felt positively clean by comparison!