Paul Forbes; Peter and Iain Hoffmann Stobo July 1972
We got up at 5.30am.
The weather was fantastic; it was dead warm and we spent much of the day diving, jumping and swimming in the River Tweed to try to keep cool. When we arrived last night we were on our own but it’s clearly a well known spot as throughout the day lots of tourists and families arrived with their picnics and to play in the river too; we ended up playing with some of the other kids. Their parents were quite interested in us camping.
It was good having the tent where we could retire to whenever we wanted.
On the opposite side of the bank it’s a good four or five feet higher up for diving into the main body of the river where the water is around eight feet deep. It’s a brilliant way to begin the day with a dive into the pure clean water. Throughout the day whenever we sizzled with the heat we'd stroll across and dive and dive again into the water.
By showing off we entertained some of the parents who offered us some of their food.
Once they started to leave we built a fire and sat up late into the evening around the camp-fire having a good blether and a laugh - happy days!
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