Friday - oh dear, 2 lessons today on what we still  have to learn about tides.  We were too tired to work out the next route and when we did it this morning we discovered we should have left 3 hours ago, so a day on the visitors pontoon.  The pontoon is not connected to land so we decided to pump up the tender and have a run ashore.  No problem, just like Ullswater where we use a tender all the time, so we tied up to the jetty, had a shower at the local yacht club and a good walk up the hill from the hamlet.  The only thing is that when we got back to the jetty the tender is strung up by her nose, there’s less than 2 inches of water and the outboard’s prop is sitting in the mud.  We quickly manhandled dinghy and contents onto and along the jetty, where there must have been all of 5 inches of water, and managed to get ourselves afloat – not the most dignified manoeuvre in the book!  It appears the tide waits for no-one, not even us.