Comments on: River Great Ouse

By: CherryPie

CherryPie — Wed, 28 Nov 2018 23:30:30 +0000

I think this would be an ideal place to enjoy a canal boat holiday

By: London Caller

London Caller — Wed, 28 Nov 2018 20:09:48 +0000

I would like to have a canal boat holiday here.
Did one last year in Wales!

By: CherryPie

CherryPie — Tue, 27 Nov 2018 23:06:10 +0000

I love the weather vein. We didn’t have time to wait until they had lifted the boat to shore. The got the boat this far and then wandered off!

By: Astrid

Astrid — Tue, 27 Nov 2018 06:42:11 +0000

Wonderful weather vane on top of the boat lift. It is the time of the year that these lifts are used. All over the Netherlands people are getting their bigger boats “on land”.

By: CherryPie

CherryPie — Sun, 25 Nov 2018 23:01:40 +0000

River River has a nice feel about it.

The Great Ooze is tidal and drainage channels and sluices have been added to restrict the water flow.

HaHa, I love your RAF reminiscence Thankfully there was no reason for me enter into the river, I think it would have been pretty chilly in November!

By: CherryPie

CherryPie — Sun, 25 Nov 2018 22:50:04 +0000

We stood and watched as the boat was lifted but didn’t wait until the took the boat ashore. I like the weather vein:-)

By: Amfortas

Amfortas — Sun, 25 Nov 2018 15:48:58 +0000

The river that flows through Melbourne, Oz, is the Yarra. That is the Abo name for river. So the river Yarra is the river River.

Ooze is a pretty good description of a slow moving flow from what was mainly a swamp back in pre- Celtic days.

I recall well the waters of Thetford. It was a very cold January when as an RAF Officer cadet I had cause to plunge into a river in the Thetford Chase in order carry a rope across to start the building of a bridge to convey an imaginary retreating army, tested by a 44 gallon drum filled with waters from the same river. ‘Twas frigging cold, I can tell you. But I went with the flow !!

By: Alan

Alan — Sun, 25 Nov 2018 06:55:23 +0000

The boat lift is very interesting; the weathervane on top adds a nice touch to it.