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17th July 2018 Hiking - Walking: Tanners lane circuit Wind Direction: Wind Stength: Surf / Sea State: Air Temperature: Sea Temperature: Weather: sunny period and warm. Max Speed: Distance Covered: 7.15 miles (Nautical Miles - unless stated otherwise) Monday 17th July – walk – Tanners lane circuit **** – sunny period and warm. Top night on the small beach at Tanners Lane on the Solent with top views over to the lsle of Wight but woke to the sound of small waves close to the van at 5.30 so decided to get up. Mag made a cuppa and we relaxed for a while before both doing our exercises on the beach but it was a little breezy. Then porridge in the shelter at the back of the van. My original plan was to go for a walk and then drive around to Hayling for a windsurf in Langstone Harbour. Left the van at 9.30 with the tide now low and headed left along the beach which is inaccessible at high water. The beach is not easy to walk on being a bit soft in places with large pebbles and loads of low groynes made from small tree trunks which you had to climb over. As we walked along the beach I thought we would make it to the place I windsurfed down to yesterday, a Quay at Pitts Deep. There was an intriguing row of posts out into the Solent so we continued past Sowley Marsh a large inlet with loads of dead trees which we could get over with the tide out. We passed many grand waterside residences and definitely saw how the other half lived! Reaching the line of post whose purpose we could only guess at we decided to see if we could walk down to the start of the Beaulieu River. I decided to stay here and windsurf in the Solent again as it’s a nicer place to spend the night than Esso Beach, Hayling. We passed a huge fenced plot where builders were no doubt building another massive house and then what we thought was the end, yet another big fenced plot where they had built the reinforced concrete sea defence and a big garden gazebo before running out of money. They had even put up a wooden fence to stop people walking on the beach! We climbed up on the grassy bank and still couldn’t see the river but did see the sign saying Private Beach, No Entry, how can a beach be private !!! :) As there were people in the grounds of the end plot we decided not to chance them having a word and follow the footpath inland and hope to walk back on the road. I checked my gps and we had walked 3 miles. The footpath soon turned into Park Lane, a dirt farm track which just went on and on in the wrong direction! We came to the tarmac lane and turned left seeing lots of horses under the trees. It was a long way and then turning left again into Sowley Lane we passed the big Sowley Pond, as you can guess the Sowley estate is big in these parts and there is definitely no access back to the Solent. There were the usual horses dancing about in the middle of the road and we were away from the New Forest heathland this being farmland but every house still had a cattle grid! We eventually made it to Tanners Lane and were very relieved to get back to the van after three hours out covering a whopping 7.15 miles!!! The wind had really filled in now and I was wondering if my smallest sail here was going to be too big!!!! Photo Gallery Here |
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