Ipswich Buses 133 (R133 FBJ) at Shotley - 13 Oct 2008 (DSCN2505)

Monday 13 October 2008 (1407) - Ipswich Buses 133 (R133 FBJ), an East Lancs Spryte bodied Dennis Dart SLF new April 1998 named ‘Coronation’, seen at Shotley Marina ready to work the 1410 service 98 back to Ipswich. It is not that often one gets the chance to photograph a bus so close to a boat!

Shotley lies at the point of a peninsula where the Rivers Stour and Orwell flow into the North Sea. Above the trees on the right is the now derelict site of the former Royal Navy land based training centre named HMS Ganges which closed in 1976.

The cranes of the port town of Harwich on the opposite bank can just be seen on the left over the wall. The Stour, further upstream, is featured in numerous paintings by the artist John Constable. The river starts to flow as a small stream in the countryside near Wratting Common south-west of Newmarket.