Mersey River Festival: 2006.

Christian Radich
Arrived on Friday 30th June (2006) and entered Langdon Lock and joined Eye of the Wind in Bramley Moore Dock.
Built in Sandefjord, Norway 1937.
Dimensions 72 * 10 * 4.8 with a tonnage of 676.

Eye of the Wind
I heard that the tall ship had arrived on 26th June (2006) in the Albert Dock. The more observant may notice that this is last year's picture... I had too much on to get a picture this time. She moved into Bramley Moore Dock to join the other tall ships. On July 13th I spotted her sailing for Copenhagen.
Dimensions 40 * 6 * 3.

Swan Fan Makkum
Arrived on Friday 30th June (2006) and entered Langdon Lock and joined Eye of the Wind in Bramley Moor Dock.
Built in 1993. The world's largest brigantine.
Dimensions 62 * 9 * 3.6 with a tonnage of 404.


On Saturday afternoon I managed to get a picture of the ship while she was sailing around the River Mersey.

Kites over the Mersey

I arrived a New Brighton dips at the start of the festival (June 24th) on a overcast calm morning. Quite a few of the kites were still on the ground as it was quite early and the lack of wind was making things challenging. I couldn't wait for conditions to improve as I was on the way to a barbecue.

A couple of the large kites were airborn. To get an idea of scale look at the size of the children near the tail of the kite. In the background there is another kite being prepared.


High up in the sky I spotted this kite.


While I was watching there was a competition to see who get a kite the highest within a time period.


There were lots of banners and quite a few smaller kites such as these butterflies