Wakeboarding at Milton Keynes (C2/2)

            File: 2008003-0010

Willen Lake, off V10 Brickhill Street, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom. Date unknow, likely to be in May 2008.

About the photograph.

This is one of the people taking part in a cable wakeboarding activity at Willen Lake, in Milton Keynes. The photo of this lady may have been taken after completing a jump.

The photographs were taken with a Minolta X-700 35mm film SLR camera, with attached Motordrive MD-1. The lens used was a Centon MC 500mm mirror lens, via a T2 adaptor.

I can’t remember which film I used, so it was either Kodak (my primary choice) or Agfa (my secondary choice).

The film was sent away for develop and printing. The digital photos were either scanned to a CD-ROM at the same time as they were printed, or I may have scanned the prints to my computer. I think the first one is highly likely.

I can’t remember the exact date I took those photographs as I lost the information. I lost the notes and journals. The digital files were moved around from computer to computer so often, that the EXIF got overwritten. Most likely could be either Sunday 4th or Monday 5th of May 2008.

The reason for either of those dates was because I was in Milton Keynes for a fan convention, which was happening during that weekend.

I was there to meet celebrities, and getting autographs from some movie and/or television actors, as well as taking photos of them. After the weekend, either on Sunday or Monday, I was on my way home. To get to the motorway, I needed to go past Willen Lake, and I was aware of cable wakeboarding activity there.

So I decided to stop by, watch the wakeboarding, and try to finish off the roll of film that was in my X-700.

About the subject.

Willen Lake is an approximately 100 acres of water, found at a 180 acres parkland, in approximately northeast-east part of Milton Keynes, not very far from Junction 14 of the M1 motorway. It is a visitor and leisure attraction, that gets about 750,000 visitors a year.

The lake included various watersports activities, including cable wakeboarding, boating, and so on.

Cable wakeboarding is like, instead of being pulled by a fast motorboat, the surfers are being pulled by an overhead cable that goes around the lake on a pully system. Somewhat similar to a poma lift at a ski resort, except that it is moving faster.

I have no idea when did this cable wakeboarding at Willen Lake started, but sadly by 1st November 2022, The Parks Trust, an organisation that owns the leisure activities, had decided to close the wakeboarding facility, as it as a loss-making activity. 

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Taken in: UK / England / Milton Keynes (show map)

Taken on: October 14, 2021

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