tillergirl
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Approaching the creek from the fairway, ?? Church should be astern (note that in 1935 this was covered by trees and the recommendation was to use the water tower) and the low marsh of the island ahead until several conspicuous bathing boxes (not there now) standing above the sand and shingle foreshore some quarter of a mile northward of the creek entrance are sighted. The foreshore below those huts can be approached until about 350 yards distant when course should be altered to the SW-ward parallel to the mainland shore-line. A lookout should now be kept for two leading post beacons which are set up on the crown of the mud-spit running northward from the island: these posts are small and inconspicuous and none too easy to distinguish against the darkish background (rear - a post with triangle topmark: front a post with a T-crosspiece)(Not sure they are there now). When sighted these beacons should be brought into one ahead: they will be found to lead into the narrow entrance to the creek between the island spit and the mudflat of the main shore. The edge of flats on either hand is shelving and soft and there is little room to turn: further guides to the run of the mud, however, may exist in the presence of locally established withies.
The leading line with the two beacons in one ahead should be maintained until, when close to the edge of the island spit. a row of slender, none-to-prominent trees in front of the Inn can be made out. The Inn itself is unmistakeable - a large cream-coloured building with a reddish brown roof and a prominent black store-house (still there) immediately to the southward of it. When the second of the slender trees from the right is in line with the centre of the Inn's lozenged-shaped signboard (think its rectangular now!)(or the stumpy chimney) course should at once be altered to bring and keep these marks ahead. This new leading line leads down the next reach of the creek entrance and until two inconspicuous small posts set up in the marsh ground near the angle of the mainland sea-wall on the port bow come in line (front a short, dark post; rear a taller white post). These marks in one ahead now lead round an awkward bend in the channel between two flat 'horses' and until the run of the creek begins to open up to starboard. Thence a course about mid channel will lead in with the best water.
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The leading line with the two beacons in one ahead should be maintained until, when close to the edge of the island spit. a row of slender, none-to-prominent trees in front of the Inn can be made out. The Inn itself is unmistakeable - a large cream-coloured building with a reddish brown roof and a prominent black store-house (still there) immediately to the southward of it. When the second of the slender trees from the right is in line with the centre of the Inn's lozenged-shaped signboard (think its rectangular now!)(or the stumpy chimney) course should at once be altered to bring and keep these marks ahead. This new leading line leads down the next reach of the creek entrance and until two inconspicuous small posts set up in the marsh ground near the angle of the mainland sea-wall on the port bow come in line (front a short, dark post; rear a taller white post). These marks in one ahead now lead round an awkward bend in the channel between two flat 'horses' and until the run of the creek begins to open up to starboard. Thence a course about mid channel will lead in with the best water.
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