A motor boat on the bayou for Cee’s B&W Challenge: Anything with Motors this week 🙂
Boat on the Bayou
Tag: boats
Nairn Beach and Harbour
Images of the harbour and beach at Nairn taken while out for a walk on Monday afternoon… 🙂
Colourful Kayaks
Colourful kayaks in a rack for this weeks Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Four colours or more 🙂
Friday Afternoon Walk
A few images from this afternoon’s leisurely stroll with my husband along the banks of the Caledonian Canal in Inverness. We saw boats, and ducks, and enjoyed the warm but breezy weather and beautiful blue skies.
It was nice just spending quality time together in the fresh air, walking and chatting and comfortably putting the world to rights – and to cap it all off we bumped into an old friend who was also out for a walk with her son, so we stood and chatted with them for a while too, which was lovely.
Altogether we whiled away a relaxing couple of hours in the sunshine, a perfect Friday afternoon walk 🙂
Blue Sky, Blue Water
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is ‘blue’ – so here is some blue sky and blue water from yesterday’s walk 🙂
Straight and Narrow
This weekend’s Weekly Prompt is ‘straight and narrow’, and the system of locks for raising and lowering boats at the end of the Caledonian Canal here in Inverness is certainly straight and narrow – and deep! 🙂
Bridges, Boats, Branches, Water
I’ve tried to find more than one subject in each image for the letters B and W for Cee’s Black & White Challenge this week – the first has branches, a bridge, and water, and the second has a building, a boat, a bridge, and water 🙂
Living Close to Water
I love living close to water. Our house in Inverness is situated a five minute walk from the canal on one side, a ten minute walk to the river on the other, and a pleasant half-hour stroll following the canal to its final lock-gate will take me straight down to the sea 🙂
Boaty No Mates
Only one single solitary boat tied up to this particular mooring jetty, whereas the rest are pretty full – I wonder if it has the boat equivalent of BO? Poor old boaty-no-mates 😦
Whatever Floats Your Boat
I have an odd kind of fascination with boats, even though I must admit I’m not particularly keen on being on one. I often find it funny that someone who loves being so close to the water doesn’t really like being on it so much, probably because I don’t want to end up in it! I love swimming in a swimming pool but not in open water – I once nearly drowned at the seaside as a child, and the experience has long left me warily respectful of large, powerful bodies of open water.
In idle daydreams I love playing with the idea of the potential freedom a small vessel floating along can bring – I imagine hiring a rental boat for the day to travel up and down the canal by my house, of having fun on the water in a very restricted and contained way, never far from land. But then reality hits and I think – I don’t like the undulating sensation of movement beneath my feet and anyway, the scenery looks just as nice from the bank where I can feel far more safe and secure.
I’m not someone who avoids being on water at any cost. I’m happy enough being on a ferry boat, because there’s a good reason for being on the water and the boats are robust. Or taking a short, tourist boat-trip, I’ve done that on occasion, too. But being on an ocean-going cruise for days of weeks on end has never been my idea of a fun holiday. Here in the UK I’ve been sailing with friends on a loch before, and have been out in a rowing boat, and a kayak in the sea for that matter. I’ve even experienced water-skiing behind a boat – but never again, once was more than enough for me. In Louisiana visiting my in-laws I’ve been out on small motor boats on the bayou, and have also visited relatives on their houseboat because living in the swamp as they do there, boats are simply a part of everyday life.
But basically, a life lived regularly on and off the water is not for me. Beaches and shorelines and riverbanks are more my scene. Close by but keeping my distance. Boats and me seem to have a truce, a mutual understanding because of their preferred location. They stay in the water and I admire them from dry land. Yet I continue my fascination with boats, drawn to photographing them and watching other people live their lives on and off their boats, whether for work or for leisure. Sometimes I wish I was more like them, clearly comfortable in stepping so easily from solid ground to floating free. But I’m not, and that’s all there is to it. Still, whatever floats your boat! 🙂
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