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10th December 2011
Hiking - Walking: Pin Mill to Levington Wind Direction: Wind Stength: Surf / Sea State: Air Temperature: Sea Temperature: Weather: sunny Max Speed: Distance Covered: 6.25 miles (Nautical Miles - unless stated otherwise)
What a top winter's day, sunny,mild with light winds and it's time to get
those walking boots on again :)
Mag and I pack a picnic and head to Chelmondiston stopping off at The
Strand near the Orwell bridge for breakfast and with the tide high there
were loads of birds right near the bank !!! We park up and walk down into
Pin Mill. The tide is over the road so we have to walk though the Butt and
Oyster carpark and climb down the wall to get onto the footpath into Cliff
Plantation - lovely wood on the banks of the River Orwell and see several
squirrels :) We come out on the banks of the river at Clamp House and the
start of a fantastic stretch of marshes with Colton Creek in the middle.
There are hundreds of birds - I think we see 32 sorts on our walk including
a large owl,herons,egrets,oyster catchers,brent
greese,turnstones,curlews,godwits,sandpipers,grebes,
pheasants,partridges,widgeons,redshanks etc etc etc :) We end up at a spot
opposite Levington Marina sadly called 'Jills Hole' :( where we stop for
our picnic.We try and get back by Hill House Farm but the footpath has been
closed so we back track along the river past Orwell Cottages before heading
inland a bit past the reservoir near Colton Cottages where we scared the
life out of the ducks, coots and two Egyptian Greese.We then walked past a
huge shooting area with pheasants feeders and loads of pheasants but unlike
in France nobody with shotguns perhaps it's not the season ???
Then back past the ponds near Clamp House along the fields through the
stables to our van, we were gone over four hours and covered over 6 miles
in the sunshine - a top day :)
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