Posted by Ed Kiser on June 22, 2013 at 07:43:11 user Kisered.
I have mentioned this webcam in a previous notation to the TarBoard,
but just in case you missed it, I'll repeat it here:
http://www.norfolklive.org/camera/broads-tours.html
It is a webcam on the front of a Wroxham Tours boat (rather large)
as it leaves its berth in Wroxham and heads south and east for
several miles down the river, taking in two of the Broads there.
I have enjoyed getting this view of "Coot Club" country via this
webcam as a great alternate source of that local geography in
addition to the word descriptions so well done by Ransome.
This webcam has shown me an oddity: When two water craft are
meeting, head on, they keep to the RIGHT to pass safely.
This seems to contradict another local custom as when driving a car,
one keeps to the LEFT. When the brain has been trained to manage
an establish habit, then to make it take on a complete contradiction,
sounds like this could get confusing.
I noticed on my all too brief business trip to London several years
ago, that the custom of staying on the left on the highway also
seemed to apply to traffic of people walking in a rather crowded
hallway, as I found rather quickly, after a few embarrassing head
on bumps, as I, being from the USA where we drive on the right,
was doing as I would normally do, and walk down the hallway keeping
to the right, as that is what my brain had been trained to do. A
few bumps there just proved to me that I was never to even try to
drive a car while in England, as a few bumps in the hallway is one
thing, but anything similar on a highway in a car is far too serious
to even think about.
Which brings up the question, in a LEFT oriented society, why do
the boats pass each other on the RIGHT?
Ed Kiser, Kentucky, USA kisered AT aol DOT com