were more than 10 or 15 minutes out it began to simply pour in sheets & torrents. We were literally soaked to the skin before we could land on a barren rock of a shore & when we all got there we were such an utterly bedraggled crowd we all looked at each other & laughed & laughed. The drops came off of our chins & finger-tips - hat rims &c.& I literally felt streams of it running down my back. Fortunately I had on a flannel waist. Everyone in straw hats had them awfully stricky & out of shape and oh - poor Dr. Pond without a Mackintosh - had a chill. We must have been there over half an hour & it still rained when we bailed buckets of water out of the boats & started back - rowing furiously to keep warm - which we didn't - as a cold wind in the channel blew on on our backs. At the turn the waves were very large & washed into the boat and the rain poured done again - but the sky was lovely and a glorious rainbow spanned the channel as we neared Mt. Julian - and we could see the last (Dymond) boat
were more than 10 or 15 minutes out it began to simply pour in sheets & torrents. We were literally soaked to the skin before we could land on a barren rock of a shore & when we all got there we were such an utterly bedraggled crowd we all looked at each other & laughed & laughed. The drops came off of our chins & finger-tips - hat rims &c.& I literally felt streams of it running down my back. Fortunately I had on a flannel waist. Everyone in straw hats had them awfully stricky & out of shape and oh - poor Dr. Pond without a Mackintosh - had a chill. We must have been there over half an hour & it still rained when we bailed buckets of water out of the boats & started back - rowing furiously to keep warm - which we didn't - as a cold wind in the channel blew on on our backs. At the turn the waves were very large & washed into the boat and the rain poured done again - but the sky was lovely and a glorious rainbow spanned the channel as we neared Mt. Julian - and we could see the last (Dymond) boat
were more than 10 or 15 minutes out it began to simply pour in sheets & torrents. We were literally soaked to the skin before we could land on a barren rock of a shore & when we all got there we were such an utterly bedraggled crowd we all looked at each other & laughed & laughed. The drops came off of our chins & finger-tips - hat rims &c.& I literally felt streams of it running down my back. Fortunately I had on a flannel waist. Everyone in straw hats had them awfully stricky & out of shape and oh - poor Dr. Pond without a Mackintosh - had a chill. We must have been there over half an hour & it still rained when we bailed buckets of water out of the boats & started back - rowing furiously to keep warm - which we didn't - as a cold wind in the channel blew on on our backs. At the turn the waves were very large & washed into the boat and the rain poured done again - but the sky was lovely and a glorious rainbow spanned the channel as we neared Mt. Julian - and we could see the last (Dymond) boat
