LWS at Shingle Street 9.9.10

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Took these pictures yesterday evening at Shingle Street, just before LW. It was a big spring tide and the water went out a long way, revealing the 'sticky out' bit which some of us have encountered this season on the way into the Ore soon after leaving the green Weir buoy.
Most of the seagulls in the first photo (looking up the river) are walking.
The second photo shows the shoal looking back out to the S with the Weir buoy in the distance.
The third shot is looking upriver from near the bungalow which would indicate that the deeper water at HW must now be nearer to the middle. Best not to stay too close to the bungalow side.







Went on to Bawdsey and took some pix there. See below.



 
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Jan Harber said:
Took these pictures yesterday evening at Shingle Street, just before LW. It was a big spring tide and the water went out a long way, revealing the 'sticky out' bit which some of us have encountered this season on the way into the Ore soon after leaving the green Weir buoy.
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It was on the way out that we met the "sticky out bit" we were proceeding out quite steadily albeit pretty slow over the ground when I could see ahead projecting from the west bank an area of very nasty looking white water. :eek:

I edged further east to avoid what I expected was very shallow water, and we did not touch, but our speed over the ground dropped at one point to about 0.2 knots.

There is obviously a shallow bar pretty much right across at that point.
 
Leighb said:
It was on the way out that we met the "sticky out bit" we were proceeding out quite steadily albeit pretty slow over the ground when I could see ahead projecting from the west bank an area of very nasty looking white water. :eek:

I edged further east to avoid what I expected was very shallow water, and we did not touch, but our speed over the ground dropped at one point to about 0.2 knots.

There is obviously a shallow bar pretty much right across at that point.
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Back before the Wier & Oxley buoys were put in and when the entrance ran almost straight in along the beach, I was jilling around just by the coastguard cottages waiting for water to get in. An inshore lifeboat also came in and one of the crew told me to watch out for 'the bank of London clay' further in.

I guess that's the cause of the 'sticky-out bit' because it presumably hasn't moved, but the knolls certainly have!
 
It is interesting to look at Chris Woods' fascinating 3D Renders of the Ore Entrance on the eastcoastrivers.com website.

Yesterday's pix of the 'sticky out' bit would seem to confirm the survey findings of June 10 this year that the so-called South Shoal is extending to the E.

I think that the 'clay' shoal or horse is to be found a bit further inside the river, beyond the bungalow, between Oxley Marshes and N Weir Point.
 
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