Posted by Lionel Hill on June 16, 2001 at 11:23:19 from 203.34.252.210:
In Reply to: Re: Secret Water posted by Mike Dennis on June 15, 2001 at 22:18:13:
Mike Dennis,
Thanks for replying. I have never been to the UK and, especially with the current 3:1 exchange rate, am likely never to do so but I can afford to buy the occasional issue of Sailing Today when my fellow AusTar, Colin Pratt, alerts me to an issue with AR content. The December 2000 issue has four nice oblique aerial photos of Secret Water. They show a solid line of moored yachts from Titchmarsh Marina eastwards along Twizzle Creek and north along Walton Channel to Stone Point. I guess, as you suggest, one can still get about the backwaters and see it as AR drew it but I was wanting to make a comment on population pressure whether due to growth or wealth. It is not unique to the UK. I see it here in Australia where the secret waters of my childhood, Pumicestone Passage (named by Captain James Cook) are now plagued by hullabaloos from Spinnaker Sound, a marina, and articles in boating magazines by, dare I say it, expatriate tars.
By the way, how high is Swallow or Horsey Island and do you get Jet Skis on Secret Water?
Best Regards, Lionel