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Frolics in the entrance to the Sovereign Harbour, docks, Eastbourne, England, UK.
By Mark on September 1, 2009
I decided to do a post on an event that happened in Eastbourne, East Sussex, England, UK. I had gone down to visit my parents for the bank holiday weekend, my mother and I decided to go for a walk and this is what happened. Everyone is relaxing or taking trips out to favourite places. One of those places seems to be my parents’ home town of Sovereign Harbour in Eastbourne, East Sussex, England . There are so many people around the harbour where they live. When I visit for the weekend we always enjoy going out together for long beach walks. Today we decided to walk to my mother’s favourite place up on the hill top by a Martello tower from where you have the most magnificent views of the sea and the harbour. As the weather was fine, there were lots of sailing boats taking part in regattas. It was wonderful to watch.
This is one of my photo’s taken at Sovereign Harbour, Eastbourne.
This is another picture of the boats with the hosepipe working.
We had been up there for an hour or so feeling totally relaxed and enjoying the views and the sea air, when suddenly all the boats started sailing back into the harbour. There must have been thirty or forty of them heading back at the same time. This looked rather strange so we hurried back to the lock to watch them coming in. There are two locks. One was filled with a dozen sailing boats all very calm and well behaved but the other was filled with six large square fishing boats which had obviously be hired out to a party of young men. Each boat held quite a crowd and they were singing and dancing and generally making a lot of noise. The boats were covered in flags and balloons. Once the lock gates had shut them inside the fun really began.
This is one of my own pictures taken of the second dock, whilst the activities are going on in the first dock.
This is my own picture taken of the boats in the harbour.
The young lads on the boats got hose pipes out and were soaking the people on the other boats with seawater, and anyone who was watching from the sidelines also got squirted. There were shrieks and yells from passers by some of whom got drenched. Apparently this had all been planned because up on the lock harbour men brought out eggs, toilet rolls, bags of old fruit and vegetables and flour bombs and the boats were bombarded. The would-be sailors were covered with flour which turned into glue as water was sprayed onto them. It was such a sight to see. Eggs were flying back and forth, as were tomatoes and fruit. We were lucky we didn’t get hit. The harbour men kept the boats inside the lock for a good half hour before freeing them. In the meantime yachts were queueing up in the outer harbour unable to get in until the frolics were over. Not actually knowing what was happening. I love visiting Eastbourne, this has got to be one of the best towns in England.
We had such a good time watching the spectacle and photographing it. It really made our day.
Information was provided by Mrs C.M.RAMSAY and myself, M.RAMSAY.
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Nick Ramsay, exploring the world from a zabuton in Japan.
1:25 am on September 2nd, 2009
Love it, sounds like a riot! ;-D
1:38 pm on September 2nd, 2009
Oh Nick it was great fun, mum and i had a really good time and a lovely weekend and let dad relax and chill in his garden. It was warm and sunny most of the time, but cloudy other times. Those blokes on those boats were having a great time and so was the crowd, it was cool.
6:04 pm on September 7th, 2009
It was great wasn’t it Mark. I have never seen anything like it. You did a lovely job of the photos. A good piece.
Mum