Berwick to Eyemouth
Tuesday 10th of June
Waking up in the lorry park that is Berwick's harbour, we found Serenity covered in grit, cigarette end and litter. After a short debate, we decided it was more important to move on ASAP and miss the great fortifications of Berwick.
Looking at the weather closing in, Anstruther was the ideal destination for the next few days.
The harbour exit was easy, mostly following our track in, but the sea was a little choppy and the wind was directly from ahead.
A couple of yachts passed us including Jackie and Steve, one more sheltered by the cliffs and one further out to sea.
We passed our plan B - Eyemouth under some shelter from the cliffs until we passed St Abbs Head and hit the wind and swell from the Firth of Forth. After a very short while, I decided to turn back for Eyemouth, and what a good thing we did. Eyemouth is a wonderful destination, with excellent facilities and I felt like looking for work and a house to live in.
We were welcomed by a group of tame seals who seem to think that we were going to offer them fish.
Waking up in the lorry park that is Berwick's harbour, we found Serenity covered in grit, cigarette end and litter. After a short debate, we decided it was more important to move on ASAP and miss the great fortifications of Berwick.
Looking at the weather closing in, Anstruther was the ideal destination for the next few days.
The harbour exit was easy, mostly following our track in, but the sea was a little choppy and the wind was directly from ahead.
A couple of yachts passed us including Jackie and Steve, one more sheltered by the cliffs and one further out to sea.
We passed our plan B - Eyemouth under some shelter from the cliffs until we passed St Abbs Head and hit the wind and swell from the Firth of Forth. After a very short while, I decided to turn back for Eyemouth, and what a good thing we did. Eyemouth is a wonderful destination, with excellent facilities and I felt like looking for work and a house to live in.
We were welcomed by a group of tame seals who seem to think that we were going to offer them fish.
posted by Jenny Bailey @ 11:16
4 Comments:
At 13 June 2008 at 16:18 ,
Jon Schneider said...
Bring me back a seal or two to play with please.
Jon
At 19 June 2008 at 18:10 ,
Unknown said...
The deal with the seals at Eyemouth turns out to be that if you buy £5 worth of fish from the kiosk they give you some manky bits to feed to the seals.
At 25 June 2008 at 21:29 ,
capt'n Jac said...
Hi Jenny,where are you now?Arbroath,or cambridge?I'm sorry to hear about your ceiling,how is it all going?I'm in Lossiemouth,awaiting cxrew and weather for the 'canal'.Sailed here single-handed from Whitehills,which i don't recommned due to the entrance,scary!!!narrow and quite a swell inthe eastery >i arrived in.I do recommend it here though HM friendly and helpful.Whitehills is fantastic.David the HM will lok after you and there's a bothie to rest your weary soul.Take care and fair winds.Jacquie
At 8 July 2008 at 20:16 ,
Jenny Bailey said...
Hi Jacquie,
8/7/8 - I'm temporarily back in Cambridge due to gap in crew changes. Serenity is at Bangor Marina, and we are due back there Friday. Hope you are doing ok, it'd be great to meet up again..
Jenny
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