Non Diving trip report

[Richard Mason]

And just to some dive material in, in this photo, you can see one of my favourite dive sites, Lagoon Bay:


Here:

[Venus]

:hijack: apologies Sixy

Originally Posted by Richard Mason

That is truly disgusting. It amazes me that they can charge people huge amounts to get in and yet provide crap facilkities like that. The Local Authority should be ashamed of themselves for letting the organisers get away with it.

- leave it out, Richard
There were 140k tickets up for sale and 40k casual staff tickets
Both were well over subscribed

There were people genuinely heart broken at not being able to go - it's a great five/ six day event and well worth the money we paid

I don't think the authorities have anything to be ashamed of, if it did not rain it would be a completely different set of pictures, which would not have been relevant to this thread, and have been a completey different experience

Originally Posted by Richard Mason

And just to some dive material in, in this photo, you can see one of my favourite dive sites, Lagoon Bay

This is a 'non diving trip report' on a 'non diving posts' board
So, your point here is what exactly?

[Richard Mason]

[quote=Venus;832753]:hijack: apologies Sixy

Originally Posted by Venus

There were people genuinely heart broken at not being able to go

I was "genuinely heartbroken" when my dog died, so I doubt it would have been that genuine, if it was, there's a few people needing to get a life.

Originally Posted by Venus

I don't think the authorities have anything to be ashamed of, if it did not rain it would be a completely different set of pictures, which would not have been relevant to this thread, and have been a completely different experience

"If" is irrelevant, the point is that it did rain and it frequently does rain at that event and 180,000 people milling around on a low lying cow paddock for a week are going to cause some major problems. It's up to the organisers and the LA to ensure that the site can cope with foreseeably foul weather conditions and plainly they didn't. It's a bit like saying that if we didn't have a car crash, the seatbelts would have been unnecessary and we wouldn't have finished up in casualty. Sorry, but having dealt with the organisers of events such as this, it's generally greed (ie maximise paying customers and minimise overheads) that's the usual motivation, over and above altruistically seeing that people have a good time. (ie they don't do it "for the kids")

I wonder how the local river systems coped with that amount of extra sludge running off? Not what I'd call environmentally friendly.

Originally Posted by Venus

This is a 'non diving trip report' on a 'non diving posts' board
So, your point here is what exactly?

Just pathetically thought I'd up my dive:non dive posting ratio.

[annatrnr]

Great report Six so glad you both had fun. Dan your photos are so fantastic it almost looks apealing. The surrounding are certainly beautiful but I am not sure that I could muster up the stamina to walk up all those hills. Now you come to mention it I didn't get any turkey or sprouts either this Chirstmas - however unlike you two I did get plenty of mulled wine!!! Looking forward to seeing you both at the next dive.

[tom]

Originally Posted by Richard Mason

Urgh.
if they gave you out rifles and baggy green uniforms and paid people to stand in the mud like that, they'd have to conscript them and their human rights would be being breached.

but on the plus side, you could shoot them all. Damn hippies.

[Richard Mason]

Originally Posted by tom

but on the plus side, you could shoot them all. Damn hippies.

I was thinking that napalm would be more hygienic.

[annatrnr]

Originally Posted by Richard Mason

I was thinking that napalm would be more hygienic.

But not very enviromentally friendly

[Richard Mason]

Originally Posted by annatrnr

But not very enviromentally friendly

Unfriendly on many different levels I'd reckon.

[rustferret]

I used to live just up (literally) the road from Castleton and remember the good old days when really had snow. I used to be on stand by for snow rescue and remember going out in me SIII landrover with snow up to the top of the bonnet.
Regular temp drops to -10 Ahhhhhhhh them were the days

Rustferret

Glad you ahd a good time.

[Letz]

Originally Posted by rustferret

I used to live just up (literally) the road from Castleton and remember the good old days when really had snow. I used to be on stand by for snow rescue and remember going out in me SIII landrover with snow up to the top of the bonnet.
Regular temp drops to -10 Ahhhhhhhh them were the days

Rustferret

Glad you ahd a good time.

Ahh, snow. I remember making snowmen and that was just outside London !

Thanks FeO2 and here are those Goth geese with a charcoal chicken