24th Oct '11

The marina has been filling up in the last few weeks as boats come in for winter. Lots of people cruise for 6 months during the summer and then book into a marina for the winter, but this means nowhere to park vehicles and not for us!
Anyway, we suddenly found that the way we were moored meant that we no longer had any view out of our windows in the living area so today we took advantage of the lovely weather and have turned the boat around!
It makes so much difference and we have found that the sun has been shining on the cratch all day as that is more or less due south, so all in all it's been a good move. Paddy has longer to run along the sides but I'm just hoping the sight of all the coots, swans and geese out there don't give him ideas of jumping in again!
We will just have to remember for his last night and early morning walks to get out of the boat on the right side or it could be interesting!
I only have a couple of days to go till my operation now so am looking forward to being able to get out and about again!

looking straight out of the cratch across to the towers behind all the marina buildings - looks as if they might be demolished next year but we are hoping for a reprieve!

looking across to the entrance sort of north eastish from us.

We are here on the left so this is now Paddy's little exercise yard! The boat 'Serenity' is a wide-beam and is moored on the further jetty so we have a bit of space between us.

Here we are - note Paddy's tail wagging!

.....and from the other side - you can see 'Angel' (Kev and Angie's boat) moored next to us and 'Serenity' beyond.

I had to take 2 lots of these photos because there was a bug (small creepy sort) in the camera and was walking across the lens from the inside on the first lot. Don't know where the little buggers gone but it's still in there somewhere as there is no way to get into the camera!