I have kind of left updating this blog for a while <insert excuse here/>.
I am somewhat hoping that the photos will remind me but at the time a lot was going on. I had just had a great weekend with the rest of the association at Chatham. The weather was unbelievably good as can be seen by the previous post in this series.
When I arrived in St Kats it was just before first locking and there were a number of boats. Knowing the current was strong I tied up to a bouy to avoid the other boats.
Part of the “logic” behind the mission to Oxford was to discover London by the river that gives it life. I have come to appreciate the river peels back the history of a city. Besides I have gone through Paris and that was fun. But London has a special seafaring history. So it was off to the old pubs to discover this.
Two that I will highlight is the Prospect of Whitby and The George at Southwark. Pictured below they harp back to when the day of tall ships. The image of the Prospect of Whitby is interesting (IMHO) because it is taken at low tide. I hadn’t appreciated that I had chosen a spring tide and there was near 7 metres of tidal difference. This can be seen here. Just consider for a moment the amount of water that flows through the barrier.
In fact I might return to that noodling, I asked an AI thingy and it estimated tidal generators might generate as much as 10% of the electricity used by London. That needs digging into a bit deeper.
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