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My farcebook friends will have a general idea of my whereabouts in the past week, so please hang fire until others have had an opportunity - although, knowing fellow forumites, the window of opportunity will probably be extremely small!

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Bude Harbour Tranway?

Sadly, not

Fairbourne?

I didn't think it would take long!  The abandoned loop at the Barmouth Ferry end
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Trains crossing at the aptly named 'Loop Halt'
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.... and, anything Finn can do, so can our little Westie. 'Jessie'  :D
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The Mawddach Estuary has a sort of magic for me ... just sayin'. 

I know that 'beauty is in the eyes of the beholder' and not everyone will appreciate it, but I love this 'snapshot' of the bridge taken on a 'phone from a moving car by my daughter on the spur of the moment as we approached Barmouth in the early evening.

I hadn't spotted the 'coxed 4' in the foreground until I saw the enlarged version on my laptop.

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Did Jessie need her own ticket on the Fairborne? :P
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We had to pay for Jessie, but she did not get her own ticket - just a bog standard till receipt detailing '3 Adults and a dog'

Surely, just to offer some respect to one more of their valued fare-paying passengers, it should be '3 Adults and their dog'.  :o

Seems a ruff deal all round. 

No need to get hot under the collar about it.  ;)

Meanwhile, puns aside: that is a brilliant image, PhilWakely - my congratulations to your daughter!

The central position of that 'coxed 4' boat was perfect - all in near silhouette.  :)

I suspect the boat is a celtic longboat - if that's any different to a gig.

I suspect you're right. Here's a stock photo from down the coast at Aberaeron.

Sea and estuary rowing using a variety of types of boats is a thing, including for recreational use thankfully. It's very sociable, especially when its not a requirement for survival, e.g. the need for Shetlanders to row sixty or so miles into the teeth of the weather in pursuit of the herring, in a heavy oar-propelled boat I think known as a sixareen.

And then of course the competitions, which possibly generate various versions of the joke: 'What's the difference between an egg and a cornish gig?'...

Mark

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