Island adventure
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Had a weekend away on Osea Island and got back last night.
What a terrific place to get away from it all. Hopeless for cars as you have to drive across a bumpy pitted causeway at low tide to get there and then there is only 1 road, like a long gravel driveway.
Anyone else been there of know it? It's just off Maldon in the Blackwater.
What a terrific place to get away from it all. Hopeless for cars as you have to drive across a bumpy pitted causeway at low tide to get there and then there is only 1 road, like a long gravel driveway.
Anyone else been there of know it? It's just off Maldon in the Blackwater.
How funny. I am a building surveyor and love drains as is one of our chums and another is a builder. Between us we had a great conversation on the island infrastructure.
We did wonder what the maximum weight the causeway would take, specifically in the context of a scaffold lorry to repair some of the buildings.
It's very much a place to chill out and do nothing. There is a small gym and a 4 person sauna (currently out of order)and thats as close to a spa as it gets. There is a great website to show what the island has available. It seems that the latest owners have concentrated on making the various properties wind and watertight and smart internally. The properties should not be judged by the exteriors.
It's expensive unless in a group, our accommodation was theCaptains House and it is over £3000 for the weekend. It does sleep18 quite easily however.
We walked round the perimeter several times and ate too much. All in, not a bad mixture.
We did wonder what the maximum weight the causeway would take, specifically in the context of a scaffold lorry to repair some of the buildings.
It's very much a place to chill out and do nothing. There is a small gym and a 4 person sauna (currently out of order)and thats as close to a spa as it gets. There is a great website to show what the island has available. It seems that the latest owners have concentrated on making the various properties wind and watertight and smart internally. The properties should not be judged by the exteriors.
It's expensive unless in a group, our accommodation was theCaptains House and it is over £3000 for the weekend. It does sleep18 quite easily however.
We walked round the perimeter several times and ate too much. All in, not a bad mixture.
Interesting. towards the south west part of the island we found a vented manhole cover connected to an old salt glazed drain. The chamber was close to the beach and the pipe was coming from the interior. I guessed it was rainwater because of the vented chamber but I would have assumed soakaways rather than drains.
All in all, an interesting place.
All in all, an interesting place.
That's true. A chap in the Charrington family set up his drying out facility there. Its got quite an interesting military hgistory too. In WWI they ran 'skimmers' or early torpedo boats out of the Island and they were top secret. They went on raids to the Baltic and one chap won the VC.
The history we read said over 1000 sailors were stationed there at one time.
There is a big house on the south side that is in part set up as a recording studio.
We got chatting to one of the managers and he said that several times a year the island is hired out in entirety for corporate type events and parties with many flying in by helicopter. Usually you are not allowed on unless staying there. There are actually 135 odd bedrooms on the island but its very small. They set up villages of tents and yurts as necessary.
I took the Alfa 159 and it was fine over the causeway, if a little grubby now. My 9-3 Aero convertible with a Hirsch front splitter would have stood no chance, which I had guessed at. Our gang has been away many times to all sorts of places. Because of the causeway and the feeling of isolation it felt so much more interesting and exciting that other places we have been.
I love Essex.
The history we read said over 1000 sailors were stationed there at one time.
There is a big house on the south side that is in part set up as a recording studio.
We got chatting to one of the managers and he said that several times a year the island is hired out in entirety for corporate type events and parties with many flying in by helicopter. Usually you are not allowed on unless staying there. There are actually 135 odd bedrooms on the island but its very small. They set up villages of tents and yurts as necessary.
I took the Alfa 159 and it was fine over the causeway, if a little grubby now. My 9-3 Aero convertible with a Hirsch front splitter would have stood no chance, which I had guessed at. Our gang has been away many times to all sorts of places. Because of the causeway and the feeling of isolation it felt so much more interesting and exciting that other places we have been.
I love Essex.
Why thank you, I shall idle my way through those later on.
We couldn't see too much of the recording studio from having our noses pressed against the window. As a building surveyor being there with another building surveyor and a builder we slipped into assessments of repairs etc whilst wives talked about some nonsense or other in the gazebo outside.
I would love to be staying at the Captains House under a glorious hot sky in July.
You have a special interest or a connection to Osea?
We couldn't see too much of the recording studio from having our noses pressed against the window. As a building surveyor being there with another building surveyor and a builder we slipped into assessments of repairs etc whilst wives talked about some nonsense or other in the gazebo outside.
I would love to be staying at the Captains House under a glorious hot sky in July.
You have a special interest or a connection to Osea?
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