Blyth put-in
A slipway on the tidal River Blyth estuary at Blyth Harbour, near Factory Point on the estuary's north bank. The river's tidal limit lies upstream at Bebside; from there the estuary widens towards the coast into a roughly 168-hectare (415-acre) tidal basin, joined on its northern side by the Sleek Burn. The harbour is a working commercial and offshore-energy port, with the Royal Northumberland Yacht Club's marina and boatyard in the South Harbour nearby.
This is a working commercial and offshore-energy harbour, and the water carries a 30-strong fishing fleet along with visiting fishing and pleasure vessels. Past the piers a submerged wall marks the edge of the entrance channel; above the Port's ship turning basin the river becomes a drying channel, where the River Blyth Boating Association keeps drying moorings.
The estuary lies within the Northumberland Marine Special Protection Area, which runs along the coast from Scremerston near Berwick-upon-Tweed to Blyth and extends up to 18km out to sea across some 88,500 hectares. It is designated for its breeding Arctic, common, roseate and Sandwich terns. The wider shore also falls within the Northumberland Shore SSSI and the Northumbria Coast Ramsar site, with intertidal mudflats used by wading birds and wildfowl; ecological survey work in the estuary itself has recorded common and Sandwich terns roosting and foraging on the water.
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An ice cream and coffee parlour about 1.5 miles from the launch, near Ridley Park.
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A working commercial and offshore-energy harbour with a 30-strong commercial fishing fleet, visiting fishing and pleasure vessels, and the Royal Northumberland Yacht Club's pontoons and boatyard in the South Harbour.
SourceA tidal estuary whose tidal limit lies upstream at Bebside; above the Port's ship turning basin the river becomes a drying channel.
SourceA submerged training wall runs in from the outer end of the West Pier at the harbour entrance, its far end marked by a light.
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