built on the same Cardiff Bay barrage, which turned 400 acres of Tiger Bay into a lake burying the notorious red light district and gambling dens between the city centre and it's docks; what would Dame Shirley Bassey make of her birthplace today?
" Spend a little time with me " .......... (that's if she were a kayaker looking for a day out on the all new Olympic whitewater course).
On yet another gloriously hot sunny day we made the three hour trip and reconnoitred for the club and soon ran out of superlatives as we claimed a first descent for Croydon.
It's all so new, so sparkly, so squeaky clean, an almost alpine iridescent flow never before experienced in South Wales, filtered and pumped directly from the River Ely.. and really warm too.
Underfloor heating in the changing rooms, local Welsh produce in the cafeteria, every known playboat available to demo from the shop. (I loved the Molan).
No need to even get out of our kayaks as the conveyor belt whisked us back to the top after each run.
Proper eddy's, a phenomenon previously unknown on any artificial whitewater course in the UK, all made possible with the clever omni-flot system.
Once the herds of slalom boaters and departed and taken their pesky gates with them, we could settle down and enjoy the surprisingly fast flow... you had to be there to know just how warm the water really was. But don't worry we shall soon be returning in greater numbers on official club business.
Of course, no day would be complete without addressing the urge to muscle in unexpectedly on someone else's play wave.
What better way to sign off than in true Croydon fashion?
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