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Latest Photo Gallery Comments:- If you would like to access Radio Free Walney, the HQ downloads area, or add comments to images in the Photo Galleries, you must first register as the owner of a basic Friends of Walney web account - click here to register. [Show Page] colinc says: Yours Truly on another madcap mission to video Walney Meetings going under water.[Show Page] colinc says: Primary Saltmarsh in the making on Walney Meetings [Show Page] colinc says: aka the Bootle Stone [Show Page] colinc says: A first of a couple of dozen still photos taken on a boat trip following the tide northwards up the channel to make a video about Walney Meetings - the area north of the slag bank which is the last part of Walney Channel to be submerged by an incoming tide. [Show Page] colinc says: North End Marsh covers a vast area and provides a rich food source for birds before being totally submerged twice a day. This was taken from almost directly opposite the slag bank. [Show Page] colinc says: From the slag bank to Jubilee bridge the bottom is mostly a mixture of mud and hard agregates which include shingle and mussel beds. [Show Page] colinc says: Drifting up with the tide it wasn't always easy to predict where the deepest part of the channel was going to be in 20 minutes time. [Show Page] colinc says: North of the slag bank the bottom of the channel changes from mud to sand. [Show Page] colinc says: As we drifted north on the eastern side of the channel a new channel started to develop on the west side but a huge sand bar prevented us from reaching it. [Show Page] colinc says: The new channel on the western side was rapidly being filled with by south-bound tide, whereas the channel we were in was being filled by the north-bound tide. [Show Page] colinc says: The last of the marsh opposite Willow Woods is about to dissapear for a few hours. [Show Page] colinc says: Bye bye marsh, see you in a bit. [Show Page] colinc says: By now the two incoming tides had met right in front of us. We were right on top of Walney Meetings just as the whole north channel was about to go under water! [Show Page] colinc says: By now there was already enough water to get out round the north end of the island if you picked your spot but we preffered to hang around and watch the last of the sand bar dissapear. [Show Page] colinc says: The Black Huts, and a clear passage out to the Irish Sea if we wanted it. [Show Page] colinc says: One of the deep water channel markers in Scarth Bight. [Show Page] colinc says: Mission accomplished we headed back south towards our start point [Show Page] colinc says: The whole of Walney Channel was now navigable and for the next few hours Walney would truly be an island. [Show Page] colinc says: As the depth of water increased it became navigable by larger boats too. [Show Page] colinc says: South of the slag bank and heading for home. [Show Page] colinc says: Following a Hobie Cat 16 on a trip around Piel Island. [Show Page] colinc says: An assorment of leaky boats and miscellaneous boat wreckage spotted on or around Walney. [Show Page] colinc says: Just a few minutes of Walney's 2008 Carnival Parade before I headed for cover with the camera. [Show Page] colinc says: A boat pileup on the ferry pitching caused by the hundred of extra cars parked along the prom during Jubilee Bridge's 100 birthday party celebrations. [Show Page] colinc says: On the 27th July 2008 a day of celebration for 100 years use of Jubilee Bridge culminated in a spectacular fireworks display. [Show Page] colinc says: A short boat trip to see the dredger in action in Walney Channel. [Show Page] colinc says: A two part video of a boat trip to the place where Walney's north and south flood tides meet.
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