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Post by naughtyfox on Sept 2, 2016 18:03:30 GMT
Album 7
44 photos in this set
Continuing our car drive back home from Nantwich to Northern Finland, we leave Ely and stop in Lavenham in the county of Suffolk, famed for its many wooden beamed houses. This evening we are due at johnv’s boat in South Benfleet, in the Essex marshes, on a creek of the River Thames. Here we are regally greeted and entertained, and certainly taken aback by such a magnificently restored ex-petrol carrying barge!
Sunday 7th August sees us puzzling at the disappearance of the toll booths on the south side of the Dartford Bridge Crossing (over the River Thames), and driving around Folkestone and Dover and St Margaret’s Bay whilst waiting for our EuroShuttle car train which will carry us through the 51 kilometre Channel Tunnel and disgorge us in Calais, France.
Up to Denmark as quickly as we can (via Ostende, Antwerp, Utrecht, Meppen and Gluckstadt), and Tuesday 9th sees us in northern Jutland that night. Wednesday is the ferry Hirtshals to Larvik and our sudden decision to grab a bit more of western Norway before committing ourselves to the endless forests and general dreariness Sweden has to offer. Our last ferry was again the Umeå-Vaasa connection, and our final drive was the 2 hours from Vaasa to Himanka in the dark.
This is the last Album of the whole series and I hope you have found our story to be of some interest. The photos come by courtesy of ’Google Photos’ – how long this service will be kept open I don’t know, and when I eventually delete the photos from my Google Photos account (in a year or two?) they will probably disappear from here too.
On clicking the link and seeing all the photos appear at once, I would urge you to click on the first photo to enlarge it, and click the little i (information) sign top right for the text I have added to appear.Then you may click the forwards arrow to continue to the next photo, or use your keyboard arrow buttons.
(Edit March 2018 - link to photos now gone, as they have been deleted from my Google Photos account. Try 'Witchy & Foxy Up North' (2017) for the next batch.)
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Post by kris on Sept 2, 2016 18:28:40 GMT
How does John get his boat out to go cruising? I know he's got a small plastic boat as well, but if he did want to move his keel.
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Post by Delta9 on Sept 2, 2016 18:40:58 GMT
Some good pics again Mr Fox, thanks for doing these. Sabina H is a lovely boat.
Don't take this the wrong way, but I've been trying to think who you remind me of and it just clicked. You look a bit like Ted Bundy.
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Post by Mr Stabby on Sept 2, 2016 18:51:48 GMT
I've loved looking at these photos and reading the explanatory text, I'm awful at taking pics, just a snapper really and I do admire people with an eye for a photo. Thanks for posting them!
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Post by PaulG2 on Sept 2, 2016 22:50:38 GMT
Thanks for all the work you put into your photo albums Ross! It is a pleasure to have shared your summer journey with you.
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Post by naughtyfox on Sept 3, 2016 6:36:20 GMT
"Theodore Robert Bundy (born Theodore Robert Cowell; November 24, 1946 – January 24, 1989) was an American serial killer, kidnapper, rapist, and necrophile who assaulted and murdered numerous young women and girls during the 1970s and possibly earlier. Shortly before his execution, after more than a decade of denials, he confessed to 30 homicides committed in seven states between 1974 and 1978. The true victim count remains unknown, and could be much higher."  Errr.... thanks for that! You sure you don't mean Al Bundy??!! Al Bundy is a fictional character and the essential protagonist of the U.S. television series Married... with Children, played by Ed O'Neill. He is a misanthropic, beer-loving, indebted, working-class father of two, portrayed as somewhat a tragicomedic figure. Although he is cheap, unsuccessful, boorish, unhappy, and scheming, he nevertheless stands by his family, displaying wit, self-sacrifice and resilience in times of crisis. He and his wife, Peggy Bundy, were rated the 59th best characters on television.  |
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Post by PaulG2 on Sept 3, 2016 16:00:51 GMT
"Theodore Robert Bundy (born Theodore Robert Cowell; November 24, 1946 – January 24, 1989) was an American serial killer, kidnapper, rapist, and necrophile who assaulted and murdered numerous young women and girls during the 1970s and possibly earlier. Shortly before his execution, after more than a decade of denials, he confessed to 30 homicides committed in seven states between 1974 and 1978. The true victim count remains unknown, and could be much higher." Errr.... thanks for that! You sure you don't mean Al Bundy??!! Al Bundy is a fictional character and the essential protagonist of the U.S. television series Married... with Children, played by Ed O'Neill. He is a misanthropic, beer-loving, indebted, working-class father of two, portrayed as somewhat a tragicomedic figure. Although he is cheap, unsuccessful, boorish, unhappy, and scheming, he nevertheless stands by his family, displaying wit, self-sacrifice and resilience in times of crisis. He and his wife, Peggy Bundy, were rated the 59th best characters on television. I'm gonna vote for Al Bundy. I don't see much resemblance to Ted. |
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Post by naughtyfox on Sept 3, 2016 16:04:14 GMT
I had not heard of Ted Bundy before. Wouldn't it be interesting to know exactly what the truth is? We shall never know.
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Post by JohnV on Sept 5, 2016 16:43:58 GMT
How does John get his boat out to go cruising? I know he's got a small plastic boat as well, but if he did want to move his keel. Only just got back and charged up the laptop and read this. There is a gap in the jetties just by the stern of Sabina, two boats have to move but here is a channel out. (Just been dredged as I am going to have to go to drydock sometime early in 2017) When we do move her out I will try and take photo's ....... trouble is when things like that are going on you are normally too busy doing it to photograph it .... if you follow what I mean ! |
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Post by naughtyfox on Sept 5, 2016 16:51:26 GMT
Then you must get a photographer-chappy there to stand and take piccies! Don't forget there are another 6 albums in the series  |
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Post by kris on Sept 5, 2016 17:05:10 GMT
How does John get his boat out to go cruising? I know he's got a small plastic boat as well, but if he did want to move his keel. Only just got back and charged up the laptop and read this. There is a gap in the jetties just by the stern of Sabina, two boats have to move but here is a channel out. (Just been dredged as I am going to have to go to drydock sometime early in 2017) When we do move her out I will try and take photo's ....... trouble is when things like that are going on you are normally too busy doing it to photograph it .... if you follow what I mean ! I follow what you mean John, thanks for the explanation. From foxys photos I couldn't see how you could get out. Looks like a lovely place to moor. |
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Post by JohnV on Sept 5, 2016 17:28:17 GMT
I would hate to try and find a place to move to that I would like as much
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Post by PaulG2 on Sept 5, 2016 23:01:17 GMT
I would hate to try and find a place to move to that I would like as much I found you on Google maps: www.google.com/maps/@51.5401104,0.5739765,169m/data=!3m1!1e3 It does look like quite a nice spot. When I lived on Lopez Island I had about two acres of wetlands, including part of a tidal lagoon, as my front yard. I love wetlands! They are so full of life. |
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Post by Saltysplash on Sept 17, 2016 12:57:42 GMT
How does John get his boat out to go cruising? I know he's got a small plastic boat as well, but if he did want to move his keel. Only just got back and charged up the laptop and read this. There is a gap in the jetties just by the stern of Sabina, two boats have to move but here is a channel out. (Just been dredged as I am going to have to go to drydock sometime early in 2017) When we do move her out I will try and take photo's ....... trouble is when things like that are going on you are normally too busy doing it to photograph it .... if you follow what I mean ! Do you float every tide? The Barge moorings at Hoo float for a couple of hours each tide but one of my friends relocated his barge further up the Medway to Cuxton and his boat only floats twice a year and only then if the tide manages to reach prediction. eta...great pics Foxy |
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Post by JohnV on Sept 17, 2016 13:10:05 GMT
I don't float on the neaps and it needs to be about a 5.9 to float ...... (6.3 being about the biggest we get)
Oddly it's high tide at the moment a 6.0, so well afloat and if they all make prediction will float for the next 9 or 10 tides
So although there are good long times when she doesn't lift there is still plenty of opportunities to get out through the year.
There are berths on the moorings where there is more water (one guy at the end can get out on all except the lowest neaps)
It doesn't bother me (well at least not much) and I'm more than compensated by the very low mooring costs and a very nice environment to live in
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