Circumnavigation of Potton Island

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Went round the island yesterday. Many years since I last did that. The swing bridge opened for us as we approached without having made prior contact and got a friendly wave from the bridge-keeper. There are a few port and starboard buoys and, interestingly, a number of port and starboard withies which had small empty plastic milk bottles tied to them. They were skimmed or semi-skimmed with their red or green caps indicating which was which!

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MikeBz said:
Was that in Plum Colin? Just wondering how much water there is and where the trickiest bits are.
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No that was in Stardrift. One metre draft, but the minimum depth we saw was 1.8m on a height of tide of 5.3m at Burnham, even though we did not always know where the deepest parts were. Trickiest part was approaching the swing bridge from the south and not knowing which side of the swing bridge to pass (when it is swung the gap either side of the central pivot was of equal width, no signage, we chose the Eastern span and we had plenty of water) then just north of the bridge was very tricky interpreting the withies until we noticed the milk bottles! then it was OK.

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Port AND starboard; there's posh. We've just got them on one side down here on the Orinoco. Visitors (few and far between nowadays) might wonder which side to pass so milk containers would help...just the red ones needed but everybody only seems to drink green.
 
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