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23rd April 2017
Mt. Biking: Felixstowe to Levington Wind Direction: Wind Stength: Surf / Sea State: Air Temperature: Sea Temperature: Weather: sunny periods Max Speed: 18 (knots - unless stated otherwise) Distance Covered: 10 miles (Nautical Miles - unless stated otherwise)
Sunday 23rd April – Bike **** Felixstowe to Levington – sunny
periods.
After yesterday when the highlight of the day was a walk along a busy cold
prom in Felixstowe we decided to make more of an effort today! A nice
relaxing start, a bit of a lay-in reading. Mag is really enjoying Jono
Dunnetts ‘Long Standing Ambition’. Breakfast and exercises before
packing a sandwich with a flask and some delicious homemade trifle. We set
off at midday on the bikes as the sun started to break through. Our plan
was to bike to Levington marina for lunch through the tree lined lanes the
other side of Trimley. We saw a new farm reservoir near Cordys Lane and
passed beautiful yellow rape fields. At the River Orwell, we decided
against the marina turning left to stop at our favourite spot on the cliff
looking up the river but there was someone already there so we continued to
a little shingle beach on the water’s edge. Lovely views but a little
chilly with a good breeze blowing up the river. Top chicken sandwiches,
trifle and tea while watching the many yachts enjoying the good
conditions:) Despite the sun we were getting cold so decided to head back
the way we had come but back on the path I spotted about 20 deer including
two white ones on a small hill behind Trimley Marshes so decided to take
the river path back towards the docks instead. We hadn’t gone far when we
spooked another twenty deer much closer in a field eating the farmer’s
wheat! They watched us and we watched them it was amazing to be surrounded
by about forty deer:) We continued past the bird reserve, the winter flood
was pretty empty but spotted Shell ducks, Godwits, Oysters Catchers, Curlew
and a buzzard.
We were out two and a half hours covering about ten miles, as soon as I got
home I got in the van heading to The Dip to check the windsurfing
conditions.
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