Invisible castaways ...

The skipper of The Monarch should be sipping rum I thought, not a cappuccino -

The Town Quay should be the haunt of lean mariners - 

There should be casks of Marsala being unloaded from rakish sloops - 

We should be hearing songs from tropic harbours - 

Len and I looked into the engine room of the steam launch - 

There, before us, was its oily heart - 

I can smell oil coal and smoke Len said - 

Soon the tide would turn - 

Steam would drive the shining pistons - 

Invisible castaways would voyage downriver - 

11.40

Tuesday 28 March 2017

The Town Quay

Wareham 

Dorset