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@MrCopperpot
So you're having a large boat and going upstream from #Wroxham will also be a problem.

Just home! Good to be performing at a sell-out gig. Hardly a stadium, but lots of praise for our performance from those attending the local church hall at #Wroxham in heart of the #NorfolkBroads

https://barroomblues.co.uk try to play music from the #British #Blues #Boom of the 1960s. It went down well with an audience that seemed older than us and our combined age must be approaching 210 years!

Bar Room Blues, Left to right, Greg Chapman, Chris Mayatt-Jones and Steve Smith

Riverside Bungalows, Wroxham, Norfolk, c.1960s - Photographic Greeting Card Postcard

https://www.ebid.net/uk/for-sale/riverside-bungalows-wroxham-norfolk-c-1960s-photographic-greeting-card-pc-221155091.htm

#Wroxham #NorfolkBroads #Postcard #Postcards

Printed colour postcard showing a view of the riverside bungalows at Wroxham on the Norfolk Broads.
Published by The Photographic Greeting Card Co Ltd, London, No 686, c.1960s.
Postally unused.
Excellent condition, with minimal corner bumps.

Sails #water #norfolk #sails #boats #wroxham #photo #photography https://flic.kr/p/2qheywn

'John Of Gaunt' @BureValley railway #Wroxham today

Black 2-6-2 tank engine No 8 simmering on a blazing hot day with a return working to Aylsham, carriage doors open, family boarding along the platform, black and white

I don't seem to have mentioned the #Shopping #Trip to #Wroxham back in #January. In truth it was just an excuse to take the #boat out again. But I have now written up the log at: https://gregafloat.org.uk/safari/240129shopping.php

It started with #SundayLunch taken aboard, "Singing the Blues", included a #game (and a purchase!), pondering the curious case of the #BusShelter" under a #railway #viaduct and a walk around the village of #Belaugh.

#boatsthattoot #norfolkbroads #boating

Roll and Butter on a plate and home made tomato soup in a bowl with a spoon beside

Tantrix a game similar to dominies except that the tiles are hexagonal; and rather than spots a haver a number of coloured line which have to be matched

A structure rather like a simple bus shelter but sited on a footpath under a railway viaduct.

The porch of the church of St Peter in Belaugh, Norfolk, no longer regularly used for services but open to visitors for prayer.

Once through #Wroxham #Bridge and past the mass of #boatyards you begin to pass a range of #riverside mansions, houses, chalets and bungalows. None of those shown here are the most impressive of the properties.
#boatsthattoot #boating #norfolkbroads #river

A modern riverside house with overhanging roof and of white clapperboard construction. On the upper floor there is balcony backed with full height patio doors and windows. Outside the ground floor is a wide veranda and nothing but grass reaching to the riverbak. It is most probably used as a holiday rental home.

A less impressive chalet set further back from the river with a well cultivated garden suggesting this is a permanent home or, at least, a regularly used retreat.

A large more traditional white boarded bungalow with thatched roof and large matching boat house.

Belaugh Boatyard had it's usual changing collection of #craft. The river had long flows of #PussyWillow. The #Wroxham locals were out #swimming at Caen Meadow and negotiating Wroxham Bridge took all my concentration, so no time for a photo.
#boatsthattoot #boating #norfolkbroads #river

Day boats and strange launches are in the water. There are the usual collection of wooden yachts under repair ashore.

Seen through the cabin window, people if all ages are swimming and playing in the river.

The river has a band of white on its surface running downstream formed from floating willow seed.

Approaching Wroxham Bridge from upstream. Customers are in the beer garden at the Kings Head There are still lines of day boats ready for hire along the bank. The bridge itself out of sight round the dogleg ahead.

Turns out the forecast was good for today and tomorrow so, after learning yesterday that #Wroxham Bridge was passable, we set off for an overnight cruise. #boatsthattoot #boating #norfolkbroads #river

Dredging continues. A pontoon with large digger on board occupies half the river's width

A space in the riverside mooring close to where we started from. There is dull sun. The river bends tightly. The bank is quay headed. There are trees close to the river

We pass a number of groups of canoeists. This one such with family groups on board

Approaching Belaufh Staithe. A pair of canoes make for the slipway.

Some friends took the video a few weeks ago. Here's a couple of images from the 5000 word report, one shows the ice stopping us reach out favourite bay on Bridge Broad, #Wroxham. The other one of the angler's boats we encountered in our return.

#boatsthattoot #norfolkbroads #Boating

Anglers in a small dinghy on the Upper Bure.

Having put two #heaters aboard earlier in the week we decided we'd take the opportunity to check on them and see how warm the #Webasto #centralheating copes in the current extreme conditions. The forecast is for 1°C overnight.

It was fully dark by the time we moored a mile upstream at the head of navigation at #Horstead #lock

We plan to get down to #Wroxham #Bridge tomorrow and the return to our #mooring.

Just after sunset we see a string of boats along a rural riverside. Much of the area is still awash from the last month's heavy rains and is frozen given recent sub-zero temperatures.

A Hampton Safari Mk3 on a riverside mooring

I've just added a short video to my #TripReport at:
https://gregafloat.org.uk/safari/231017wroxham.php
It may well completely replace the panorama shot of the same subject still on the page.
it shows our location a very small bay off Bridge Broad in #Wroxham #NorfolkUK

#BoatsThatToot #NorfolkBroads #NorfolkUK #Boating #BoatLife

I'm caught up! Can it last?

Got our most recent #TripReport uploaded to
https://gregafloat.org.uk/safari/231017wroxham.php

In effect it was a shopping trip to a village 10 miles from home, but it took us two days, with a bit of relaxing on the way, by boat.

Given the headroom under the bridge at Wroxham, we couldn't have gone further.

#BoatsThatToot #NorfolkBroads #NorfolkUK #Boating #BoatLife #Wroxham

The church of St Peter and the boatyard at Belaugh, Norfolk (Pop: 134 - in 2022) seen from the River Bure

Headroom gauge at Wroxham Bridge, showing less than 6ft.

@jfk @mlanger
Can't see it working on my home waters where there's often less than three feet of water under you, a slight problem with airdraft and speed limits not exceeding 5mph and often down to 3mph.

But I'd love to play with one.

As you see you don't need charts to navigate the Broads. You just follow signposts.😂

#norfolkbroads #potterheigham #wroxham #boating

Me and my brother during our 2006 attempt at the Three Rivers Race passing under Potter Heigham Bridge for the first time.

Entering the dyke to Bridge Broad, Wroxham, on the Norfolk Broads where there is a 3mph speed limit.

I thought I was going to catch up with my trip reports aboard "Singing the Blues" but then Diana suggested it was time for another. So there's another still to come:
https://gregafloat.org.uk/safari/231001sleepover.php
https://gregafloat.org.uk/safari/231006overnight.php
There were a couple of dramas in the first - overheating engine and one that wouldn't start. In the second we did more sight seeing ashore.

#BoatsThatToot #NorfolkBroads #NorfolkUK #Boating #BoatLife #Wroxham