Thames at Weybridge
A beautiful sunny New Years Day in Weybridge, so Wilson got a great walk & I got to play with my camera. The river is still in flood, but the water has gone down a bit. No chance of getting a ferry just yet 🙂
Ferry landing still under water
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- Sabrina moored at D’Oyly Carte
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- The Weir and conflugence of the Thames and Wey
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- Boat moored on D’Oyly Carte Island
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- Model Plane
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- Weybridge Marriners
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- Model Aeroplane on Desborough Island
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- D’Oyly Carte House
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- What else are wellies for?
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- Canoeists on the fast flowing river
Day One 
Great pictures, hope the flooding goes down soon xXx
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Thank you. The flooding is not a problem round here (yet) we live in the floodplain of the river so there are lots of sacrificial fields that are intended to be flooded when the river overflows, keeping us safe for quite some time. It would take a lot for us to be at risk.
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Gorgeous photos, I love them. It’s beautiful where you live!
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It is stunning. As long as I have lived in London I have always chosen to live as near the Thames as possible, Earls Court, Wimbledon, Molesey and now Weybridge. It’s a great resource and very photogenic 🙂 Where abouts do you live?
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Great photos. I forget, did you get a new camera?
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Yes 🙂 A superzoom… Panasonic DMC-FZ62 I’m just finding my way around it. It is the same make as my compact & so easy for me to use, just has so many more functions & capabilities. I could never get good photos of the woodpecker in our garden before as he always visits down the end away from the house & it was too far for the zoom on my old camera. This one has no trouble! 🙂
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Isn’t it great fun! You will see the world like you never have before, I promise.
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🙂
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It is just beautiful where you live Barbara…and I really enjoyed these shots of the flooded river…change the perspective so much.
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I am so lucky 🙂 I have always tried to live near the Thames as it is the most beautiful part of London. The riverside is very photogenic. We are also not far from the Surrey Hills here which are also very beautiful, and I am lucky to have a lovely garden full of different plants and habitats (pond, woodpile, compost heap) which brings in a lot of the local wildlife too (Although Wilson does his best to keep the garden free from pesky visitors who eat all his daddy’s nuts & seeds!)
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These are very beautiful shots. I’ve noticed the river has been high for some time which makes curious about whether the land is pretty flat where you are? Our flood waters tend to go down relatively quickly but tends to flow quickly due to the elevation changes.
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We live on the Thames, relatively near to London, so yes it is very flat here, and we get the floodwaters from the source of the Thames. Also the river Wey joins the Thames here at Weybridge, so we get it’s floodwater too. Although the river floods, it is supposed to round here in order to protect the city of London from flooding. There are lots of locks between here and the tidal part of the Thames deliberately holding the water back
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You are blessed with wonderful walks all around you.
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We really are… with the river right beside us & then with the Surrey hills not far away, we are incredibly lucky, and then it is only an hour to the coast, so we do get a lot of great walks in. We live in the Green Belt of London, so there are lots of protected open spaces around us which are now being protected as wildlife reserves and encouraged to grow in a natural way.
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You have some really gorgeous photos here, love the light the way the light reflects on the water.
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Me too, it’s that low winter light that does it, really beautiful 🙂
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