Posted by Andrew Craig-Bennett on February 02, 2003 at 21:42:53 from 195.93.49.13 user ACB.
If anyone wishes to follow out the adventures in WDMTGTS and SW by car, the following can be recommended:
1. Shotley Peninsula
Pin Mill itself (park on the left before you get to the hard). Effectively unchanged, but I don't think Alma Cottage lets rooms now!
Shotley. Drive on past the turn off for Pin Mill to the end of the road and you find yourself outside the Bristol Arms from which they telephoned and at the shoreward end of the pier they walked along to get ashore. HMS Ganges has been closed for years.
2. Tendring Hundred.
Witch's Quay. Kirby Quay. Private road but public footpath.
The Wade. Farm track, next turning to the left approaching Walton, park and walk down to the sea wall.
Walton on Naze. Turn down Mill Lane to find the boatyard that mended the rudder and the hard that the Amazons rowed up to.
3. Felixstowe.
No seaplane base, now, and on either side of the little dock that Jim rowed into in Goblin is Britain's busiest container port. However, drive down to Languard Point and park at the viewing point - to your left (south) is the Beach End Buoy, the entrance to Secret Water is SW, the Guard, on which Jim anchored the Goblin is a shoal just before the big green shed at Harwich and Shotley is visible in the distance beyond the moored lightships.