London and the Thames

It seems that we have been here for weeks, though in reality it was only two days ago when we first arrived at Tower Pier here in the centre of London.  We didn't manage to do our full schedule yesterday, the call to Clacton on Sea was called off due to the forecast high winds, our passengers were all dropped off at Southend and had the prospect of 6 hours to visit the town.

We went out to anchor and came back in to pick them up.  Southend has the longest pier in the world at slightly over one and a half miles, so long it has a little train that runs the length of it.  Our passengers being a punctual lot were all standing by, a good 45 minutes early and freezing in the cold northerly winds.  The Lifeboat shop at the pier end would have been doing good business anyway.

Today sees us back to Southend and then onto Whitstable on the Kent coast with time ashore for all.  We already have 600 passengers booked from here, so it's going to be a busy day.