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Taken on 4 May 2018 and uploaded 21 January 2025.
I rarely remember taking the stuff I'm uploading here, but I do remember this: standing on the south bank of the River Thames east of Gravesend on a very, very bright day, 4 tugs approaching - two sailing down river, close to each other, and two sailing up river, also close together. I managed to get a decent shot of 3 of them in one frame but not all four. Disappointing.
Anyway, here is Svitzer Harty sailing down the River Thames in the wake of Svitzer Intrepid. Somebody, somewhere will know if there are more pylons in Kent than in Essex.
It was a bright (bright), bright (bright) sun shiny day.
Svitzer Harty was built in 2006 by Damen in the Netherlands and now works at Immingham, on the Humber Estuary.
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Harty Ferry, Oare, Faversham.....flippin cold and very exposed, it brought to mind Charles Dickens novel 'Great expectations'
another image that floats better on black.
Looking East down the Swale Estuary from the old Harty Ferry jetty on the edge of Oare Marshes. The mouth of Oare & Faversham creeks is on the right, Whitstable is in the right distance and the Eastern tip of the Isle of Sheppey is on the left.
Under brooding skies moored against the jetties two boat from the past on Faversham Creek. The Willow of Harty.
Photograph above:
SVITZER HARTY
might seem ‘twee’ and perhaps insignificant against the towering MSC VIRTUOSA, but she certainly packs a punch as well as being important when it comes to harbour work, where would we be without the humble Harbour Tug?
Photograph Copyright: Digital Expression UK (2021)
The actual end of the 3 Marsh walk but we have to walk home now, through the lovely village of Oare. Its been an epic walk and the weather stayed well for most. Message to self, "when Phoebe says she wants to go for a short walk, take with a bucket os salt!"
Was taken during Storm Doris. It was so windy im surprised that this 4 min long exposure was still sharp after all the wind that was battering my tripod.
Seems like I failed to make about a dozen shots I took in the autumn public; and so here is a blast of colour from when the weather was about as warm as it is today!
This is a common hawker I spied on the Ise of Harty; I have posted shots of it before, but nothing wrong with another one, is there?
The Willow, a two masted Baltic ketch now under raps, unfortunately The Willow of Harty has been like this for some time, we hope we shall see her in full splender at the next tall ships.....
Seeing young Leon Harty's prize-winning photo of the Menai Suspension Bridge - www.flickr.com/photos/jonathen/2717449955/ - inspired me to go back and have a look at some of my shots of that same bridge. This is one I've re-worked with the help of Phtomatix. Thanks Leon for the inspiration!
Made Explore #215
Whilst waiting for Phoebe to finish her work helping to clear reeds from the RSPB-KWT Oare Nature Reserve, took in the view across the Swale to "Sheppy" from Harty Ferry. There was amounts lapse in the weather and the temperature plummeted, it was freezing.....
Svitzer Harty seen alongside her berth between jobs at Southampton, 17.11.2019.
Seen from one of the Red Funnel ferries, she is a Damen Tug ASD2411 and one of a number from the same builder in the Svitzer UK fleet.
She was built as Adsteam Harty.
Photograph courtesy of Gary Nightingale.
This has to be the barmiest bus route I have ever ridden on. Sometime, long ago, in a fit of over-optimism, Maidstone and District started a Saturday only bus route to a deserted and desolate part of the Isle of Sheppey. Leaving habitation behind at Eastchurch service 64 went for miles down a minor road passing occasional farmsteads before terminating at an obscure T junction within sight of an ancient chapel and a remote pub. Until about the time of the First World War there had been a ferry from near the pub across the Swale to the mainland north of Oare, out on the marshes near Faversham.
I would imagine that if everyone from every building the bus passed after Eastchurch caught the bus into Sheerness to do their shopping there still wouldn't be a full load! Perhaps there were more agricultural labourers once - but there certainly weren't in December 1972 when I took this picture. Unfortunately this Leyland Leopard was one of the first buses I had ever seen in NBC green. The service consisted of a journey from Harty at about 13:45. The return trip didn't leave Sheerness until 19:20. Amazingly the service survived (renumbered 334) until about 1980, with the odd timetable unaltered to the end.
Shortly before it came off for good I tried to ride on it again. This time, rather than making an out-and-back trip, I walked to Harty from Leysdown. At about the time the bus was due a taxi came to a halt beside me and a man got out - he said that I had better go back in the cab as the bus had been cut! I was astonished that there had been another potential passenger, but was grateful to take the cab. Later when I tried to claim the taxi fare off M&D I was told that there hadn't been a suitable bus available and therefore the cancellation was a "circumstance beyond their control". I wrote back pointing out that with all due respect, not having a bus was not a circumstance beyond their control! They ignored this letter....