Barry Docks of leads to the dock basin entrance. The channel has a least depth of , with a depth of at spring tides and at neap tides. At high-water spring tides the depth of water at the entrance to the basin is . At high-water neap tides it is . There are several moorings for yachts and small craft on the west of the tidal basin. The original entrance to the docks is wide, with two wrought-iron gates operated by direct acting hydraulic cylinders. This sea entrance leads into the Basin, (rarely called No.3 dock), that is and covers . At
The Spring to Come The Spring to Come The Polish novel Przedwiośnie (a title translated alternatively as First Spring, Before the Spring, Early Spring, Springtime, or Spring To Come) was written by the leading Polish neoromantic writer Stefan Żeromski, and first published in 1925, the year he died. The book has been translated and published in the U.S. as the Coming Spring in 2007. The novel consists of three parts: "Szklane Domy" (Glass houses), "Nawłoć" (Nawłoć estate), and "Wiatr od wschodu" (the Eastern wind). It is set between 1914–1924, before and during the reconstitution of Poland as the Second Polish Republic, but prior to