One of the pleasures of being moored on a river is that we get chance to drop our little dingy, fire up the outboard engine, and head upstream into shallower waters. The Hamble is a relatively short river and the headroom is restricted by the M27 bridge a couple of miles upstream. However, there are still 4,000 boat moorings in that short stretch of river. It is the largest boat park in the UK. Once we past under the low brides we entered a different world. Here there was an adventure park with a number of people making use of the available canoes. We had deliberately headed upstream with the rising tide so that we were able to get up the right hand channel to the Horse & Jockey public house for lunch. There is a double high tide on the river which means that there is a stand of about two hours. As a result we had plenty of time for lunch and a pint before heading back down river on the ebbing tide.