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squiz Member  Member#: 261 Location: Registered: 28-06-2003 Diary Entries: 23 Mood: chilled |
20th April 2018 Hiking - Walking: East Lane to Shingle Street Wind Direction: Wind Stength: Surf / Sea State: Air Temperature: Sea Temperature: Weather: sunny, still and hot. Max Speed: Distance Covered: Friday 20th April - walk ***** East Lane to Shingle Street – sunny, still and hot. Another top night at Bawdsey, woke to check the sunrise but not good this side of the river Deben as shaded by cliffs so went back to sleep. Weather as yesterday so we both managed to do our exercises on the small beach as the fishing boats prepared and waited for the tide to turn to set off. Mag even had a phone call from our friends the Hurrells who said they could see us from across the river :) They are staying in Felixstowe for a few days and biked down to the ferry, Neil wanted to come over but there is no way you will get Linda in a boat! Not sure what to do today as we had done the Bawdsey walk but it was too nice a day to go home so we decided to quickly pack the van up and drive the short distance down the road to the carpark at East Lane. Not such a great view here but we could do the nice walk to Shingle Street. Again, rucksack packed we headed off just before one past the farmers reservoirs with their nesting swans towards the fully restored Martello tower which has featured in magazines and on TV. Past another field of glorious yellow rape where a photographer with a serious lens was watching for birds, then turned right down to the beach which is quite something, a 2/3-mile curve of steep single with only the odd sea fisherman on. We sat on the single bank for a sandwich but it was very hot with little breeze coming from the offshore winds. We tried reading our books but were soon covered in little black bugs so moved closer to the water where it was bug free. We sat/layed with our feet in the water but that is still very cold! We can’t believe we saw a young lady went for a swim yesterday near the Martello tower! Continued along the beach picking up the odd piece of coal and some plastic rubbish. We finally made it to Shingle Street, passing the small hamlet and walking as far as the small lagoon used by kitesurfers. A bit of a sea breeze had picked up from the NE making it cool off and we didn’t have a sweatshirt! We stooped for half a banana each and continued on, back to the coastguard cottages leading to the path. Because of the cool breeze we walked below the sea wall and got back to the van after 3 hours 40 mins away, covering 4.77 miles. Unfortunately, a couple of campervans had parked nearby:( but they soon left while we had a welcome cuppa. After tea as the sun was setting I walked up to the Martello tower to get some pics, the tide was very low but it was also very chilly so got back to the van frozen, we even had the diesel heater on for a while, we love this van:) Here all on our own:) Photo Gallery Here |
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