Day 14 - Scarborough to Whitby - 14th May, 2017

Scarborough and Hull

We had spent a nice couple of days in Hull visiting our friends and taking in some of 'the City of Culture'. Visiting the broken lock gate to the marina which  had now been fixed and of course the Maritime Museum where the amazing 'Ceramic Poppy' remembrance sculpture "Weeping Window" was being shown by the same Sculpture that did the recent Tower of London's exhibit. It was very moving - representing the tens of thousand of casualties suffered by Hull during the First and Second World Wars, either fighting away or at home.
Just opposite the Maritime Museum is the Art Gallery and combined, they had combined to show what they called an 'Offshore Exhibition'. The first exhibit as you go in certainly gives you food for thought. It is made up entirely from washed up pieces of polystyrene, mostly shaped like and looking like pebbles, collected by the artist off the beach.

Scarborough to Whitby

We were sorry to leave Scarborough with the genuine warmth and friendly feel about it. 
However, onwards and upwards it must  be.

We left at just after 16:00, a couple of hours before high water and had plenty of depth in the entrance. It was going to be a short trip of 17 miles, the wind was supposed to be force 2-3 from the SSW. As we have now usually found, it was more than this gusting 24 knots at times WNW. This did give us good progress against the current which we had to unfortunately endure and could not avoid as we needed to arrive at Whitby around high water (plus and minus 2 hours) for the swing bridge working to give access to the marina. Of course the wind died, and what little there was veered more to the North. The view of Scarborough castle seemed to be behind us for ages until we altered direction a little for another headland to look at.
Eventually we arrived in the harbour at Whitby about 20:35 with the last opening at 20:55. Just made it and were met at the pontoons by yet another friendly Yorkshireman.
Apart from the time it took, the trip was very pleasant along this picturesque coast and the view of the imposing ruined abbey at Whitby - didn't see Dracula though - not yet anyway!
What a lovely little port this is with so much history mainly connected with Captain Cook and the Museum, in the building as an apprentice he lived in, is well worth a visit.

Lunar Sea at Whitby

It seemed appropriate to have one in here.

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