Pic Scam - Bude

[debris4spike]

As I said when I posted my 366 day MEME, I would be giving you further pictures of my walk.


When I started off, I walked from the town, along the edge of the canal. This is facing back the way I walked -



At the canal, I crossed over the inner lock gates, and took this photo. Bude is unique as having the only sea lock gates in England.



I am now standing in front of the outer lock gates, looking towards the Atlantic.



These boats are in the river-canal flow - also called The Haven. They are sheltered from the Atlantic by the Breakwater - but can be easily put to sea. You can see how calm this water is.





I am now on The Breakwater - looking bac over The Haven towards the lock gates (roughly cental)



The Atlantic Ocean on a fairly normal day! beautiful - but dangerous. This isn't good surf - we are a surfing town, so clean waves are what they want to see.





I walked back along the top, so now you can see The Breakwater and how The Haven is formed.



Spotting some of the local lobster pots -



And, so back over the lock gates, looking at the open outer gate and some of the winding mechanism -

 

 

Comments

[lupina78.livejournal.com]

OMG!! Beautiful pictures!! I totally would love to live there too! The ocean..so close!! *sigh* Beautiful! Thanks for sharing!! :)

[debris4spike]

5 minutes walk - and yet I still don't get there as often as I should. It is lovely!

[winsomeone.livejournal.com]

Just lovely. The Gulf of Mexico is so calm and still compared to the Atlantic. If people want to surf here they have to wait for a storm.

[debris4spike]

We have surf most of the year round - this is pretty messy, but there were still a few body boarders out there.