Skull River and Riverside Docks
Skull River is deep, narrow and calm, lined with mangroves. As a result it’s been heavily exploited for centuries as a harbor, hurricane hole and surrogate dry dock.
Both sides of the River estuary is lined with floating docks that allow even relatively large ships to be repaired and maintained. The shipwrights here are experts on the tricky “Parliamentary Heel”, a process for careening larger ships.
There is no permanent bridge over the River in order to allow free access by ships. However the floating docks can be, if needed, detached and transformed into temporary floating bridges.
In complement to the docks, warehouses and shipyards also line the River.
Further south the River vanishes into the The Deep Mangrove, breaking apart into multiple channels which quickly becomes too shallow for deep droughted ships. However the Swamp People have many villages inside the Great Mangrove and are masters of traversing the channels of the swamp and the river with their shallow droughted piraguas.