blackbeard
Active member
A couple of unfamiliar experiences recently:
We brought some sailing dinghies ashore on Bournemouth beach for a cafe stop, as we have often done before, and were politely asked to leave. I don't know the reason for this, maybe inexpertly handled boats plus a dense population on the beach is a recipe for disaster, but on this occasion there were not so many people on the beach. Apparently anchoring-off (and, presumably, swimming ashore) would have been OK. Does anyone know what, and why, the rules are?
A somewhat similar experience at Shipstal Point in Poole harbour (it's on the Arne peninsula, which is a nature reserve). Apparently we should have known, but I couldn't find anything relevant on the Poole Harbour web site. I can't think of anything we were doing which would have bothered the local wildlife. The warden seemed to think this was a harbour-wide restriction. Does anyone actually know?
We brought some sailing dinghies ashore on Bournemouth beach for a cafe stop, as we have often done before, and were politely asked to leave. I don't know the reason for this, maybe inexpertly handled boats plus a dense population on the beach is a recipe for disaster, but on this occasion there were not so many people on the beach. Apparently anchoring-off (and, presumably, swimming ashore) would have been OK. Does anyone know what, and why, the rules are?
A somewhat similar experience at Shipstal Point in Poole harbour (it's on the Arne peninsula, which is a nature reserve). Apparently we should have known, but I couldn't find anything relevant on the Poole Harbour web site. I can't think of anything we were doing which would have bothered the local wildlife. The warden seemed to think this was a harbour-wide restriction. Does anyone actually know?