Twilight Waterside Ride Home

After a rainy afternoon, the skies cleared and made way for a lovely ride home. The sun was going down over Southampton Water as I reached Weston Shore. A good end to the working day 😊


Sunset Over Southampton Docks

Looking Back Towards Fawley Across Southampton Water

Aren't Car Transport Ship's Elegant? (not quite the QE2!)




Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Leigh Creek Guzzlers - Photograph Archive - First Working Draft!

Image
This is a very first draft of the photograph archive.  The object here is to inspire others to provide old 3rd CB photographs, together with associated details (e.g. date, location, activity, names of people etc.). The final archive is likely to be hosted on a different platform, in collaboration with the 3rd CB Communications Manager.  The next task is a major 'trawl' for photograph contributions please!!                                                                                                                                                       ...
Read more

Seal Hunting Circumnavigation!

Image
Cracking day's paddling with Craig, Claire and Will.  We set out from the Portsmouth Lifeboat station, and headed clockwise around Hayling Island with a strong spring tide behind us.  First stop was the slip by The Ship car park, by the road bridge for a coffee and snack.  We then headed on and pulled up for lunch on Thorney Island.  After a good feed and water, we pressed on and soon saw a seal in the shallows.  We paddled up reasonably close and the seal seemed to enjoy our presence.  Soon we encountered several more seals, which was wonderful.  We then headed out through the channel by Hayling Lifeboat station into the Solent, still with a very string following tide.  We had a final stop on the south coast of Hayling Island for an ice cream.  We then headed back westwards along the coast.  We were all rather knackered by that stage.   The mouth to the western channel entrance was just visible and slowly getting closer as we ...
Read more