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More Flare Just trying to wring as much lens flare out of the camera as I could here, to be honest :D

I mostly went out to hang out with my friends Sarah and Vik in Bedminster, but along the way I thought I'd take a closer look at something a little nearer home: the last crossing point of the Rownham Ferry.

Sun 20 March 2022, 12:09 to 16:50
Sector:  SE
Images: 29
Distance: 5.68km
Duration: 4h 41m 0s
Total Elevation Gain: 439m
That reminds me; I must re-read Iain M Banks's Use of Weapons again. In the novel he used the name Size Isn't Everything for one of the Culture's G...
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Size Isn't Everything
That reminds me; I must re-read Iain M...
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High Mud
You don't often see Entrance Lock cycle at this kind of tide, but a little boat like that doesn't need a lot of water in the river to manoeuvre.
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Way Out
You don't often see Entrance Lock cycle...
Yes, okay, it's quite the challenge to spot the hand-made historic artifact in this picture. In the next pic I'll zoom in a bit.
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Historical
Yes, okay, it's quite the challenge to...
There, hopefully you can see it now—the slipway of the last incarnation of the Rownham Ferry, in use from as early as the 12th century to 1932, whe...
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Slipway 1
There, hopefully you can see it now—the...
Again, the slipway is easy to miss. I like these little barely-visible curiosities that hide such heritage. The site of the crossing moved around—i...
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Last Glance
Again, the slipway is easy to miss. I like...
I imagine in a tannery you want a lot of fresh air coming in.
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Four Eyes
I imagine in a tannery you want a lot of...
HASHTAG facesinthings.
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Baleful Blink
HASHTAG facesinthings.
Grabbing a coffee with Sarah and Vik at the Tobacco Factory Market.
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Rolling Italy
Grabbing a coffee with Sarah and Vik at...
The Tobacco Factory, Bedminster's will-known theatre and bar, bought a farm in 2018 and now has a farm shop attached. always trying to be innovativ...
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Succulent
The Tobacco Factory, Bedminster's will-known...
The windows of the Bedminster terraces are often interesting. Here's a colourful octopus from my wander back to Sarah and Vik's place to do a cross...
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Local Colour
The windows of the Bedminster terraces...
If you were following this route you'll have noticed I just magically took a shortcut through a bunch of houses. That's because I've elided the bit...
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Heading Back
If you were following this route you'll...
A sign of the times: all the new build homes of Balfour Road have solar panels on top. I bet they're grateful of that, given the current energy pri...
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Solar Panels
A sign of the times: all the new build...
It's interesting to be able to look pretty much a mile back and see the familiar buildings of home. Descending from the top right in the distance w...
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Distant Hotwells
It's interesting to be able to look pretty...
In the distance is EE's temporary cell tower, which I've mentioned before, put up in November 2020.
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Smyth Road
In the distance is EE's temporary cell...
Thought I'd grab a close-up of one of the Six Sisters. This one's Oodles of Poodles by "Lucas Antics", aka Alex Lucas & Paul Fearnside, apparently.
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Oodles of Poodles
Thought I'd grab a close-up of one of the...
Inflating in the field behind Ashton Court mansion, by the looks of it, the usual venue for the Balloon Fiesta.
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Balloon!
Inflating in the field behind Ashton Court...
Getting back to the Rownham Ferry, the Ashton Avenue Bridge is one of the reasons it was closed. On the excellent Bristol City Docks website you ca...
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Cliftonwood Over Ashton Avenue Bridge
Getting back to the Rownham Ferry, the...
Now the tide's lower, we can see the end of the slipway we looked at earlier poking out from the Somerset side. According this article from the Bri...
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Poking Out
Now the tide's lower, we can see the end...
Whereas on the Bristol side, this is the only visible bit, really.
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Remnant
Whereas on the Bristol side, this is the...