Finally did a triathlon!

[Byron]

That's an interesting bit of history - wish it was still true about the salmon but where's the PLA's water aeration boat these days? (or has it given up when
the infrastructure for waste water treatment is so ancient and inadequate now that there is to be another Thames under the Thames in a tunnel to be bored at a cost of billions of pounds?).
We did get a whale of course but the poor animal beached way too far upstream and unfortunately died during all the efforts to get him back to the estuary (the remains (might be her not him)are now in the Natural History Museum in Kensington).

The beach was great for the poor east end kids of the day and the idea was revived only last year - just a waste of money however as the rip tides and strong currents make it necessary to constantly top-up the sand.
I think eyes were cast at the Seine in Paris - but that's a different matter where the artificial beach has been created up on the banks.

The inebriated guy who swam across near Blackfriars last year was fined
but as an aside is there any film of the Major who was also fined many years ago when he flew his aircraft under the arches of fourteen bridges?