Boats at Bristol

ON A visit to Bristol recently it was a pleasure to see so much activity in the floating harbour, mostly ferries and trip boats. writes Alan Tilbury.

Narrowboats were about in large numbers, most of them moored. What was surprising was that they moored all over the place, some in the Bristol Marina but others on finger moorings, linear moorings and one was even moored on a very busy ferry pier, how he got away with that I don't know.

Holds all the water

Who maintains the river lock? A failure with it would be a catastrophe, just one pair of lock gates holds back all that water that is the floating harbour, it's not the original Jessop lock though!

The tide was out so the Avon was just a muddy ditch, but with a tidal rise of 49 feet it is the second highest in the world.