Whitehaven marina 🌺 🚤

Boats and yachts and suchlike!

 

We enjoyed a pleasant walk around the marina.

A bloke in a wheelchair called us over and offered to sketch us… we let him draw Patches, though she wasn’t for sitting still. It took about 30 minutes for a headshot of her for £20.

We now have a drawn memory of our day in Whitehaven.

He was a former RSM in 2 Para, he told us; and had his foot blown off in Iraq.

 

On another note, it would be fun to spend some time at sea. On a yacht or similar, or a cruise liner.

To sail away for a day or two.

 

Whitehaven

 

Cumbria

 

 

THE FLOWER BOAT

 

Robert Frost

 

The fisherman's swapping a yarn for a yarn

Under the hand of the village barber,

And her in the angle of house and barn

His deep-sea dory has found a harbor.

 

At anchor she rides the sunny sod

As full to the gunnel of flowers growing

As ever she turned her home with cod

From George's bank when winds were blowing.

 

And I judge from that elysian freight

That all they ask is rougher weather,

And dory and master will sail by fate

To seek the Happy Isles together.

Done