The morning was again sunny with blue skies. We left the marina and pottered further on up the Orwell , just to have a look. We motor sailed upstream, under the dramatic Orwell Bridge with all its concrete. You can see if you look up, that it was built in two halves…. longitudinal halves, and the gap between them is quite visible from below . Beyond the bridge it becomes very industrial again as you go up to Ipswich. We turned round before we got too much further and just enjoyed a nice river ride. We started to sail once the river widened a bit and who should come by in Voila … Allan and Felicity! We weren’t near enough to shout but hi to you both and our best wishes! Hope you’re enjoying the sunshine. Back near Harwich we turned right up the River Stour. It is always interesting seeing different coastlines and the Stour seems as quiet and wild as Harwich is industrial. We had pinpointed the place we wanted to anchor on the chart but it turned out to be very shallow so brought it up again and turned back towards the southern shore. Eventually we picked a spot just off Wrabness, basically a beach with lots of log cabins on stilts. Apparently it’s a private beach . There were plenty of private moorings with boats on so we anchored ourselves alongside but keeping out of the channel. Did of course use our trip buoy Angie! It was a lovely peaceful evening and Sue cooked delicious smoked salmon pasta with green beans and asparagus. We were anchored right opposite the very magnificent building of the Royal hospital school. An amazing building!
What I learned today……all about the school just mentioned. It’s actually purpose built in the 1930s but was founded in the 1712 for boys of seafaring and nautical families to teach the rare skills of arithmetic and navigation. Nowadays of course they do a lot more! Looks very expensive!
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Orwell Bridge 
Spot the gap 
Typical Thames barge 
Sue 
Wrabness 
Wrabness anchorage 
Angelique 