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16th April 2016 Mt. Biking: Esso Beach to Hayling seafront Wind Direction: Wind Stength: Surf / Sea State: Air Temperature: Sea Temperature: Weather: sunshine and showers – cold :( Max Speed: Distance Covered: Saturday 16th April – Bike **** Esso Beach to Hayling seafront. Walk *** Chantry Post – sunshine and showers – cold :( I had gone down to Hayling to try and get a windsurf in as I haven’t been for nearly two months,this must be my longest ever spell without sailing:( Yesterday it was windy enough to sail on the seafront but the weather was foul and I didn’t fancy paying £6 to park - we are very lucky here in Felixstowe as we have arranged with the local council to pay £20 a year to park at our main windsurfing spot! The tide was really wrong to sail from Esso beach with high water at 7 in the morning and light winds so the plan was to have a lay in and read our books but we heard someone rigging outside the van so I got up to check the conditions. He was rigging 7.5 for a big shortboard but the wind was very light and the tide dropping so I had only a couple of hours and it was very cold with rain. Then, luckily before I got the big board off the van, I realised that I hadn’t got my dagger board! That made my mind up for me and I was pleased he couldn’t go because the man was only out about 10 minutes before he packed up and it was bloomin freezing anyway! We biked along the old railway line path which was extremely muddy after yesterday’s rain!! We went to the ferry end (it’s not running but they are hoping to reinstate it at some point) then walked round on the beach to the sea front. Biked along to the decrepit funfair then back to the railway line and home. We had lunch then packed up and drove back up to the South Downs. We tried the car park at Kithurst Hill but it has a height restriction so drove through Storrington and up to a dead end road to Chantry Post where there was a brilliant place to park. The views over to the sea are amazing:) We had a rest then walked for an hour along the south downs way and back through a wood where we saw two deer (we thought one of them was a rusty old oil can till it moved and we noticed its little friend!!). There was a huge cow in a covered pen with the tiniest calf which still had a matted coat as if it had just been born :) Very cute. Back to the van for a scratched together tea (we are running low on supplies!). Photo Gallery here |
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