Week 8 - Tuesday - St Peter's Marina

Moored in a lovely marina last night, about 1 mile from the centre of Newcastle. It is surrounded on all sides by apartments, with just a very narrow entrance.

Like many marinas it has a cill at the entrance. This is a flap that keeps the water in the marina when the tide outside drops below a certain level. Once the tide rises again, the flap drops to allow boats in/out.

This means that you can only enter at certain states of the tide. This applies to this marina, so we will be unable to leave until about 09:30.

Off to Hartlepool today and then Scarborough tomorrow, before the next batch of bad weather comes in.

Vanessa and Meg are meeting us there at the weekend and I am going home for a planned weeks break.

I have missed the family a lot and am looking forward seeing them. I am also looking forward to eating some vegetables!

P.S. after 8 weeks of showering and washing in tiny amounts of Head and Shoulders, I found some very posh Gillette Shower Gel in the facilities this morning. Luxury!