Dec 10
Well today traffic was a nightmare and whilst heading out of London I managed to get snarled up in a huge traffic Jam due to the Blackwall Tunnel being shut southbound.
The traffic reports were stating that the A13 and all other routes out of London were congested and delays were going to be long. So instead of having nothing to look at but the car in front I decided to head to the river and sit out the long wait. Since I had the camera in the back of the car I knew I would not be that bored whilst waiting for the workman to repair the manhole in the southbound tunnel.
Here is a pano from the area I ended up at which is a nice quite out of the way place with a cafe.
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So when traffic is against you do the best thing and waiting it out find a road you have never been down before and have a mini adventure in to the unknown.
Tagged with: Boats • Dusk • Landscape • London • Panoramic • Sunset
Nov 10
Dungeness is littered with fishing boats and sheds used by the fisherman, It is a vast shingle bank that produces great images when the weather is on your side.
Wandering around the shingle banks amid the beached fishing boats and the hulls of the derelict and dishevelled vessels of years gone by your attention is grabbed by shapes, colours and patterns that are everywhere.
This vessel has not seen the water for years and I doubt if it will ever again, paint fading and peeling away and the deck slowly rotting.
Also to be found along the beach are the hand winches and mechanical winches that have been used over the years to drag the vessel back on to the safety of the shingle once the days fishing has been completed and it is time to return home.
Tagged with: Abstract • Boats • Coastal • Dungeness • Landscape
Nov 05
Sitting high on the shingle bank waiting for it’s next visit to the sea, this lone fishing boat at Hythe wait,s for the rolling clouds to clear and a return to the sea to fish the waters and escape the monotony of the shingle.
Tagged with: B&W • Boats • Coastal
Nov 04
Rye Harbour is a village located on the East Sussex coast in southeast England, near theestuary of the River Rother: it is part of the civil parish of Icklesham. Rye Harbour is located some two miles (3.2 km) downstream of the town of Rye.
The River Rother from Rye seawards, and including the village of Rye Harbour, is under the control of the Environment Agency. At the village itself there are yacht moorings; a small fishing fleet (coded RX: Rye SusseX); some commercial shipping; and a long-established lifeboat station. There is also a holiday village called Frenchman’s Beach alongside the village itself.
The village is 200 years old, having been built on an extension of the shingle beaches, progressively deposited by the sea over the last 800 years. These deposits limit access to the original open medieval port of Rye, now two miles (3 km) inland from the sea. The village has one of the chain of Martello Towers constructed during the Napoleonic Wars; it was built on the beachline of the time. The beachline has now advanced a further kilometre southward.
Tagged with: Boats • Coastal • Landscape
Oct 31
Hasting beach is still used by a collection of local fishermen as a location to beach and launch there vessels from, it is quite a site to view them being launched when the tide is right, the crews scurry around getting everything ready for the launch, laying huge sleepers beneath the keels of the vessel and then using either a modified dumper or a bulldozer to ease the beached vessel into the sea.
Once the vessel is in the water and free of the shingle the crew all climb aboard and head off to do there days work.
The fishing fleet at this location has always been stored on the beach this way ever since I can remember and I have read many a book that show images of the vessels lining the shingle bank in front of the towering net shed.
Tagged with: Boats • Coastal • Sunset
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