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Coming along by Dumbarton Rock I saw the boat getting on towards Bowling
pretty well. I hoped to catch it but was really 3 minutes late, so moved
along to the Old Kilpatrick slipway (cross-river ferry point) to catch it
under the Erskine Bridge.....dash it.....another 2 minutes late again!

Then a grind homewards with a 3metre 'roadworks' causing a mile tail-back at
traffic control lights..idiots - sequence not at all working to keep the
traffic flowing balanced both ways...hardly much at all coming towards
Duntocher, but us loons going 'east' tailed back to the main slip road
nearly! Who's grumpy?!

Br, Denis.

Labels: 'The Scot Ranger', River Clyde

I saw the navy boat going down river and caught up with it at Finlaystone,
the Kelburn log boxes.
I knew that I'd get good light and also the across-river views with a
difference. So the minesweeper M1092 was making steady passage with the
pilot boat in attendance behind. Onwards to the next vantage point
then....Newark Castle, The RBS esplanade, or maybe close in at the Custom
House Quay.

Anyway, I noticed another boat going further down so made chase and Custom
point was it...a few stunning shots, coming in through the early morning
silver Sun, then across the bows to catch the detail and then tail shots....
I'm afraid if it was to be 10 minutes later than usual (but still 'early')
then so be it!

At lunchtime, I was determined to see how far North I could manage and to
catch any white tops that I thought I'd seen coming down the Bishopton M8
brae.....
So I headed up the hill to the Old Waterhouse and got a few decent pictures,
that you are likely to have seen similar to before if you follow the blog.
The 'sugar boat' wreck always amazes me as to how far in the mid-channel it
is ...such a different view from when on the esplanade, when it seems to be
almost at the other side.

Later on at tea time, I ran the full loop of the Greenock Cut and though in
desperately poor form, managed about 53 minutes I think. If I get injury
free again, it should be much closer to say 48......I had the pleasure of
catching two young ladies who were bounding along nicely, springs in their
steps, not like the old trudger!
I just managed to get composure and uttered a few grunts and hmms and yeahs,
as I tried to keep up! Good fun though - charming girls ..I hope they get
what they aspire to from the training and racing.

The Greenock Cut is an amazingly enjoyable walk run or cycle; such a night
was totally glorious. Just 'do it'!

Kind regards, Denis.

Labels: Navy boats going down-river, River Clyde

Thought this was the Sospan Dau that did the earlier dredging, but not....
so a sister ship....?
Caught her going up river on eve of the 5th (first pic) then hard at work
early morning on the 6th.....
A workhorse of a boat, and as scruffy and tired no doubt as the amount of
tonnes of dredged silt she's lifted would witness for.
The name indicates of foreign flag, and I'm wondering if from the likes of
Poland or the Danube/ Rhine etc....maybe she just does the UK and plies her
way around the estuaries taking better fees that 'at home'...? Good luck to
her.
Certainly though the Clyde gets far less up-river dredge work that when the
docks were taking heavy metal and bigger gross tonnages into the City.....

Kind regards, Denis.

Labels: Dredger at Dumbarton Rock, River Clyde

The light was changing so quickly again, but I determined to get a few of
the lovely salmon hues coming through as the morning Sun came up....the
colours across past the log boxes towards the Helensburgh side were stunning
as were those looking directly down to Greenock, though the sharpness does
not warrant them shown here unfortunately.
Last stop at the Bingo hall gave me the final few, of the magpies and
Bruiser the tug, then off to work for 7.50-8.00 a.m.!

Br, Denis.

Labels: Dumbarton Rock, River Clyde

Going home after a really damp afternoon, I noticed the lump coming down
river through the mirk...(about 6.15 p.m.)
It was worth the damp clothes to stand on the quayside at Port Glasgow to
get these few. Not sure what the boat is, but it was pushing quite a good
bow wave off the bulbous prow heading off for the next port of call.
I took some rubbish shots, and have binned them, but not sure why they were
so bad.....maybe that full zoom and moving target thing again...?

Br, Denis.

Labels: Deo Volante evening, River Clyde