Close to nature

SOMETIMES it is very easy to assume that all the news involving boats and waterways is everything other than the preferred image of the lazy, hazy days of summer that first attracted people like us to a life afloat, writes Eric Weiss.

Then something like this happens and you know why you love being so close to nature, so close in fact that it may even drop by to visit you, and leave you feeling privileged and just a little awe-struck.

Picture of the otter on a jetty on the Lancaster Canal by Lesley Packwood.