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5th October 2023 Hiking - Walking: Orwell County Park and Around Felixstowe Wind Direction: Wind Stength: Surf / Sea State: Air Temperature: Sea Temperature: Weather: sunny periods Max Speed: Distance Covered: 5 miles (Nautical Miles - unless stated otherwise) Thursday 5th October – walks ***** – Orwell Country Park for breakfast and Around Felixstowe – Sunny periods. Discovered last night that the paddle boat, the Waverley was leaving Ipswich at 9.30 calling at Clacton Pier, Southend Pier and passing under Tower Bridge in London so I suggested we take breakfast to the banks of the River orwell and watch it pass under the Orwell Bridge:) With breakfast in the rucksack we arrived at Orwell Country Park on the outskirts of Ipswich at 8.45 and ambled down through the lovely woods coming out by the Orwell with the tide very low. Turning right we found a nice spot for breakfast with good views of the bridge to our right, an old barge soon appeared and motored past. We meet some lovely peopleout walking their dogs, the first couple stopped for a chat and had actually been on a paddle boat day cruise recentely and old us all about it. The another young couple came down to see it and he had been it yesterday and their dog was really friendly sitting by our feet:) You could smell the smoke from the boat and then at 9.50 we spotted the red and white funnels as it approached! It passed under the Orwell Bridge, lovely it was too especially as the sun had come out! All the passengers were standing on th decks taking in the lovely views as it passed stoke Sailing Club and Freston tower and then disappeared toward Levington, it was brilliant to see too, quite small too! We then continued our walk up past thesmall holding with its horses in the field, three Guinee foul with pigs and sheep too. Under the Orwell Bridge and up the noisy path by the A 14 and back to the van, top to the start to the day! We then made a quick rip to Lidl in Ipswich before retuning to Felixstowe, I dropped Mag off to pick up the Granddaughter, the lovely Maeva while I went home to send a few pics to the local TV weather. After Maevas lunch she sat on the worktop while Mag made my cake as I have a big birthday tomorrow! Then with Maeva tired we took Maeva out in the buggy, stopping at Marys, then the town before a walk along Felixstowe prom covering another couple of miles, maeva actually had a sleep. Mag then walked Maeva home and I think we will doze of tonight as we are knackered and we are going to have a busy weekend, starting tomorrow when hopefully I can get out windsurfing before the family arrive! Photo Album here Waverley Paddle steamer here |
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