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We had to wait for the tide and entered the river at night, following lights up to the marina. Next morning we awoke to mud banks.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="6ecc3150.jpg" border=0 width="451" height="277" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> low tide in the Dee River</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="6dc6c900.jpg" border=0 width="364" height="400" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> Emma and her new friends catching crabs</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="6bf29900.jpg" border=0 width="297" height="400" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> Threave Castle on an island in the Dee</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="6bd2c900.jpg" border=0 width="300" height="400" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> home of Archibald the Grim Douglas </div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="6ee7bf20.jpg" border=0 width="379" height="242" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> Kirkcudbright festival</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="6c758fa0.jpg" border=0 width="344" height="250" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> town parade</div> <bR> <div> In the tourist bureau we noticed a poster for gathering of Border Reivers at Buitle Tower. Not sure what to expect, "a bothering of Balderics?," we had a wonderful day learning about life in the Middle Ages.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="6da6f210.jpg" border=0 width="367" height="289" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> Buitle Tower</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="6f743510.jpg" border=0 width="323" height="337" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> doffing a suit of armour</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="6cfa90d0.jpg" border=0 width="425" height="269" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">sword play</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="6d1cae60.jpg" border=0 width="458" height="230" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> longbowmen </div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="6f5bcd10.jpg" border=0 width="444" height="209" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> firing a blackpowder musket</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="6f62c550.jpg" border=0 width="300" height="341" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">blacksmith at his anvil</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> From Kidcudbright we sailed across Solway Bay to Whitehaven, the nearest port to the Lakes District. We rented a car for a pilgrimage to Coniston Waters, where Arthur Ransome set his <I>Swallows and Amazons </I>series of books in the 1930's.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="6f03a500.jpg" border=0 width="314" height="336" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> glimpse of Wildcat Island, aka Peel Island</div> <bR> <div> Next morning we drove over to the Windermere Steamboat Museum.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="6f475f30.jpg" border=0 width="373" height="243" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> Emma with the <I>Amazon,</I> based on the <I>Mavis</I></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="6e432900.jpg" border=0 width="306" height="400" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> Captain Flint's houseboat was based on the <I>Esperance</I></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="6e65bf90.jpg" border=0 width="347" height="249" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> inside the <I>Esperance</I></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="6f249900.jpg" border=0 width="329" height="400" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> launch about to depart for a cruise</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>