{"id":34882,"date":"2026-01-18T23:16:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T23:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=34882"},"modified":"2026-01-18T23:16:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T23:16:13","slug":"news-from-nags-head-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=34882","title":{"rendered":"News from Nags Head Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag26\/2026011902.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nI was walking around Nags Head Island when somebody asked whether I had seen the otter. He said one visits there.<\/p>\n<p>What I did see was a sunken boat called <em>Wreckless<\/em>, with a notice fixed to the cabin that began: &#8216;NOTICE TO REMOVE SUNK, STRANDED OR ABANDONED VESSEL.&#8217;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag26\/2026011903.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nBeneath Abingdon Bridge the water was swirling &#8211; dull brown with carried mud. The river is running higher than yesterday and has spilled over the banks in places.<\/p>\n<p>I was also told this evening that Abingdon Bridge is to close for a few days in March. For some, that will mean finding another way to work at Culham that doesn\u2019t involve driving across the bridge. The structure has already seen long restrictions: first with a lane closed during the Covid shutdown, and later when strengthening work was carried out on one of the arches. This time, I understand, inspection work is planned for the other arches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was walking around Nags Head Island when somebody asked whether I had seen the otter. He said one visits there. What I did see was a sunken boat called Wreckless, with a notice fixed to the cabin that began: &#8216;NOTICE TO REMOVE SUNK, STRANDED OR ABANDONED VESSEL.&#8217; Beneath Abingdon Bridge the water was swirling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-river-thames"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}