Slippery When Wet

Janet having classes all day and it being a very sunny day, I took Morrigan up the A38 and stopped off at Purton to wander around the ship graveyard, otherwise known as the Purton Hulks. This isn't a picture of any ship - there're two of those in the extra - it's a view of the thick oozing and treacherous mud alongside the river Severn. I loved the zig zag canyon effect, which itself was mirrored in the broken foreshore that could easily trip you up or swallow a leg.

The Purton Hulks are ships that were deliberately beached in the 1950's on the side of the Severn in order to bolster up the dangerously eroding land between the river and the Sharpness ship canal barely twenty feet away. Some are concrete barges which remain intact albeit filled with sand and grasses. Some were timber and steel and only bits and pieces remain of those. If the land had not been protected the ship canal would have emptied into the Severn. 

Thanks for your thoughts after yesterday's upset.