Ideas, please, to keep fair weather visitors amused: Stour and Orwell?

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Only two nights.

One evening at the Butt and Oyster is a must.

A daytime visit to Halfpenny Pier, for a stroll round Harwich and, maybe, lunch at the Alma, is likely.

If the weather plays fair, it'd be good to get ashore for a bbq.

Suggestions, please, for good bbq spots eg pleasing location, cleanish dinghy landing, reliable anchorage.

LW Harwich is around 2100ish, and it should be dry with a light Easterly breeze.


Other "could do" suggestions also welcome. Our guests are fairly fit, and are very amenable to long country walks.

Thanks.
 
Sea_Spray said:
In the Stour, you can BBQ on the beach at Wrabness. Pick up a buoy just off the beach, or anchor a little further along. The landing is quite good. You can walk along to the House for Essex (https://www.living-architecture.co.uk/the-houses/a-house-for-essex/overview/) via a nice riverside walk.You can also anchor and BBQ at Erewarton Ness but IMHO it's not so nice.
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Wrabness beach ( above hw mark ) belongs to the hut owners so make sure any & all stuff is taken back o/b
Erewarton is also recomended
 
Ipswich Haven is good and close to Ipswich town, with all the usual town delights, theatres, museums etc... and a train trip to Stowmarket with an easy walk to Museum of East ANglia Life is well worth it. We did it a few years back and two of us cost a total of £20 for the train and Museum entrance combined.
 
The hard landing area on the first beach, is just upriver of an old oak mooring stump which was originally used for barges. There's a trot of tenders moored by it. Landing elsewhere is do-able, but the smell of the mud will linger for days!
 
Maybe the Backwaters are outside your range but in some winds it might be more sheltered than the Stour. At LW you could pootle into Bramble Creek and look at the seals. There were over 50 when we were there recently. A lot of the winter birds have started returning, so godwit, golden plovers and avocets might be visible.
 
Gladys said:
Ipswich Haven is good and close to Ipswich town, with all the usual town delights, theatres, museums etc... and a train trip to Stowmarket with an easy walk to Museum of East ANglia Life is well worth it. We did it a few years back and two of us cost a total of £20 for the train and Museum entrance combined.
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I like that suggestion ..... I think Joscelyn and I might try that ourselves next week.
 
Corribee Boy said:
The hard landing area on the first beach, is just upriver of an old oak mooring stump which was originally used for barges. There's a trot of tenders moored by it. Landing elsewhere is do-able, but the smell of the mud will linger for days!
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Thanks ... I've been to Wrabness a few times, over the years, but that is certainly beyond my local knowledge.
Will get crew to keep eyes peeled for said stump.
 
johnalison said:
Maybe the Backwaters are outside your range but in some winds it might be more sheltered than the Stour. At LW you could pootle into Bramble Creek and look at the seals. There were over 50 when we were there recently. A lot of the winter birds have started returning, so godwit, golden plovers and avocets might be visible.
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Thanks.

The Backwaters (and the Deben) are certainly both on the possibles list.
 
Way back in the 70s, my wife and I used to love anchoring at Erwarton, taking the dinghy ashore about an hour before high water, having a barbecue, then nipping back to the boat. Sometimes just the two of us, sometimes with a couple of friends. On more than one occasion, with the excitement of the barbecue and a glass or three of plonk, we stayed a bit longer than planned, by which time the ebb was flowing quite vigorously, and rowing back to the boat was rather tricky. So we often ended up carrying the dinghy about half a mile upstream along the shore, so that we could get back to the boat safely. Happy days...
 
If you can get as far as the Deben Ramsholt Rocks is a lovely place for a BBQ. The beech can get quite small at high water however this part of the river and beech is always sheltered. There are also many prehistoric sharks teeth to be found if you look hard
 
Bigplumbs said:
If you can get as far as the Deben Ramsholt Rocks is a lovely place for a BBQ. The beech can get quite small at high water however this part of the river and beech is always sheltered. There are also many prehistoric sharks teeth to be found if you look hard
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Is there still detritus from the local shell fish farming on the beach
 
sailorman said:
Is there still detritus from the local shell fish farming on the beach
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Not that I have been aware of recently and I go there quite often. I always beech as I am normally in a rib or speedboat. Obviously if you beech keep a good look out as you approach
 
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