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Essex, England

West Mersea put-in (Colchester)

This slipway sits at West Mersea, the main village on Mersea Island, on the Blackwater Estuary. West Mersea has long been a sailing and oystering centre with an active hard used by small craft. The estuary is a large SSSI and Ramsar wetland important for wintering wildfowl.

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