We left Studland Bay for Newtown Creek on Friday. We arrived to find a few boats there already leaving little room for manourver and we had a little coming together of mud and Emerald's keel. But we soon budged off and the helpful harbour master pointed us to a deeper spot. I thought 'ooh this is a lovely place'..... a few hours later and I hated it, there were so many boats, many seeming to not care whether they boffed into another boat because they had anchored too close. On Saturday there were 100 boats there, the harbour master telling is it had been the busiest Saturday all summer - how had we been so foolish to think it wouldn't be crowded on a sunny Saturday in September!!!!! There were some bizzare displays of anchoring - one boat throwing out 30m of chain in a depth of 3m, no wind and with other boats swinging in every direction possible only a few meters away from them.

Sunday was scorchio and we braved ourselves for a swim, a few laps round the boat, the water wasn't too bad once you were in and the sun was lovely and warm when I got out. On the plus side, most of the boats left Sunday afternoon and we had some gorgeous sunsets - picture added on the next post. I'm sure its a lovely place outside of the summer. Oh and we picked more blackberries!