The first boat trip of the 365 day nature play challenge (it’s cold and a bit miserable).
266 – The first boat trip of the year
Wednesday 9 April. Cold and windy. 12°C (but feels more like 6°C)
Well this one didn’t go too well… We’re on holiday with family near Ipswich and the weather has been lovely. All week we’ve been meaning to go on the harbour ferry from Shotley to Harwich. We want to see the container port and we haven’t done a boat trip yet this year. The diary of a big family gathering intervenes so we end up leaving it till the last day of the holiday and, as was probably inevitable, the nice weather goes away this day and it’s cloudy, windy and cold.
We go anyway. It starts really well. On the way in the car we spot some pheasants and stop to watch and film them. B is very cheery but gets less and less so as she gets colder. We were going to do the full hour long tour of the harbour but decide against and instead do a short trip over to Harwich and back. It would have been so good if the weather had been nice. I can’t believe that over three months in to the 365 day nature play challenge I still forget the importance of weather! As it was we’re too cold to spot anything much. I make a note to put off trying boats again until it’s much much warmer. It’s a shame as the boat and crew of the harbour ferry were lovely and on a better day it would have been a fabulous day out.
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