Barmby Barrage to Hemingbrough and back.

It's been a quiet week and after last Sunday it needed to be.    On Tuesday Mum contacted Dad and said she'd be home early so, as it was a lovely day, how about a short walk and a coffee at Barton Waterside?   He thought that sounded good and so did I.  However by the time she arrived someone had turned off the big orange heater in the sky and put the sprinkler on instead.  I expected the walk to be cancelled but not a bit of it - coats on and be brave!

Today is Friday 13th.  Apparently it's an unlucky day - seemed fine to me.   Got in car - went to sleep - woke up -  had a stretch and got out of the car.   We were in a car park at a place called Barmby on the Marsh. We walked over a bridge thingy called a barrage which opens underneath and lets boats go through.  We saw a really long one called a barge.  Now that's funny words;  maybe someone could make a poem using them:  "a barge went under a barrage".  

There were strange platforms with railings by the river.  Mum said people catch fish in the River Derwent there - sounds like food to me!  It's all very interesting.  The River Derwent is fresh water and has lots of fish, but the River Ouse gets salty from tide coming in up the Humber Estuary. The barrage makes sure the salt doesn't get into the Derwent.   However, there are times when it gets left open so that fish called Salmon can go up the Derwent to breed.  You didn't know I was so well read, did you?  Here's a map in case you fancy going to do the walk yourself.

We then had a superb walk all the way to a village called Hemingbrough.  Mum & Dad found a sandwich shop and they sat on a bench for a long rest with their nosh.   I didn't get any though.  Mum remarked that I needed to remember she'd been giving me snacks all the way along the walk so it was her turn.   Yeah ok!

Here are some pics - do you like the lovely stick I found?  We were all ever so tired when we got back to car for our magic sleep so we could get home.     Mum says we walked 4.2 miles - wow!