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Week 6 Ocean Lovers Challenge

Hello ocean warriors, It's week 6 of this community and we'd really love to see you show your support by entering! Every week you will have a choice of the current

A Sailor's Life is Not for Me: Response to the Ocean Lover's Challenge #3

There's definitely a romanticism to living on a boat or ship at sea, especially pirate-stylie, that is, outside the grip of council tax, electricity bills, and general

Phone Photography Contest Round -115

Happy and blessed Friday to all my Hivers friends! Thank you for sharing a new post here for the weekly contest number -115 #phonephotography, which is sponsored

A Sunset Felucca Boat Ride on the Nile

There are some experiences that you feel obligated to have, when visiting Luxor. And one of those is getting out onto the Nile. Shortly before sunset, the river

A Day at the Shore

I had my first beach outing of the season with my family (husband, daughter, dog) the other day. While my husband and I don't usually go in the water, we do love

Meta Dramas

Last week I pulled up in the beach carpark next to this guy driving a Stage One Land Rover (for all intents and purposes a Series 3 - if you know Land Rovers and

It's [Not] A Sailor's Life for Me: Visiting a Friends Live Aboard Boat in Tassie ⛵

The whole reason I went to Tassie last weekend was because my friend bought a boat and has been absolutely dying to show me. She's been dreaming about it for years,

Boats in Hooghly River

If you sit on the bank of hooghly river, you can see many boats there. Some of them carry passengers and some carry goods. I collected many pictures on 3rd April,

April Fools challenge 2026 | Day 3

This morning i went for a discovery tour in our area and we decided to go to a small fishers village near by called Spakenburg. Although most of the older buildings

[Literature] Charles Dickens: David Copperfield #14/457

'Then there's the sea; and the boats and ships; and the fishermen; and the beach; and Am to play with -'Peggotty meant her nephew Ham, mentioned in my first chapter;

[Literature] Charles Dickens: Night Walks #13/43

Chatham Dockyard There are some small out-of-the-way landing-places on the Thames and the Medway, where I do much of my summer idling. Running water is favourable

Killingsholmen photodump (many photos!)

Killingsholmen in Billdal, Gothenburg. Lovely harbour, with rock formations and the sea. Did I mention West Coast of Sweden is full of granite rock formation? I

Omaha International Boat, Sports & Travel Show

Hello friends and Hivians. I know it's been awhile since I have last made a post. Not something I wanted to do and I hope to get my writing mojo back on a more

Lake Ottenstein water Reservoir

The water reservoir of Lake ottenstein in Lower Austria is a nice spot for swimming and driving around with paddle boats. Since it is a quite big Lake in Lower Austria

Hillbilly hot tub: Looks like a terrible idea

I am a redneck. I am proud of this. "Redneck" is something that is normally looked up as a bad thing and for a lot of our members it is a bad thing. Some

[Literature] Charles Dickens: The Wreck of the Golden Mary #9/47

All night long we kept together, sometimes obliged to cast off the rope, and sometimes getting it out again, and all of us wearying for the morning—which appeared

[Literature] Charles Dickens: The Wreck of the Golden Mary #8/47

Atherfield, “and God in Heaven bless you, you good man!” “My dear,” says I, “those words are better for me than a life-boat.” I held her child in my arms till she

[Literature] Charles Dickens: The Wreck of the Golden Mary #7/47

For all that, I could not get round the church. I was still trying, when I came against it with a violent shock, and was flung out of my cot against the ship’s side.

Visual spectacle; the seascape (Eng/Esp)

English version Yesterday morning, as I was on my way to take little Alma to her grandparents' house, I couldn't help but stop for a while to admire the seascape

A walk through the port and marinas of Biograd

Hello everyone! The photos are another throwback to one of my trips. This time, to Biograd in Croatia. The city is located on the Adriatic Sea, partially separated