Sunday, 28 April 2013

27.4.13 - Breaking our Junk Duck



We are junk trip virgins no longer.

The junk trip season begins when the weather is (supposedly) more summery and we were lucky enough to get an invite along to one early doors.

The concept is very simple. An organiser gets together a bunch of people, between perhaps 20 and 40, to celebrate some occasion or other. This group shares the cost of hiring a boat with crew for the day.

This group and boards the boat late morning, which chugs merrily to a pretty spot where the water is swimmable and a beach is within striking distance. The group will frolic about in the water and mess about on the boat, until the boat tips them back on shore 6 hours later.

And oh yes, did I mention you get free-flowing booze, a massive meal and constant snacks?

We will be going on quite a few of these – this trip was as good as that advert sounds! I’ll try in future to just pick out something unique about each trip now that you all know how they work.

This is our group, gathered around Katherine whose ‘leaving junk’ we were on, posing with a decorated engineering achievement complete with moat. The lady in the foreground was the source of food and boozy goodness all day…when she wasn’t offering us trays of chicken, beef, crisps or tacos, she was contriving to ensure that every cup never emptied. Even better, when we were in the water, she decanted everyone’s drinks of choice into plastic bottles and variously burled them into the sea on order, or ferried buckets of booze to the beach in a little motor boat.

Sore heads today, much? Hmmmm.

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