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5th June 2023 Hiking - Walking: Christchurch Park, Ipswich. Wind Direction: Wind Stength: Surf / Sea State: Air Temperature: Sea Temperature: Weather: cloudy Max Speed: Distance Covered: Monday 5th June - walk **** Circuit of Christchurch Park in Ipswich - Cloudy. After two full-on days windsurfing covering 60 miles on my fin board on a pretty lumpy North Sea I had the day off for a rest which left Mag and I free to have a day out:) We agreed to visit my Dad before taking a picnic to Christchurch Park in Ipswich to see if we could see a family of owls recently hatched up an Oak near Mabels tree ? she was an owl from a few years again which became famous for sitting in a large hole:) Managed my exercises indoors again as the sunshine from the weekend has disappeared before setting off for Ipswich around 11.30 and had a really good time with my Dad who was on top form and looked pretty fit for a 93 year old who had got up early this morning to take his niece to Gatwick airport luckily my sister drove:) We arrived at the park at 1.45 starving and were lucky to park near the entrance in Westerfield Road walking along to Mabel?s tree marked by a wood carving not sure where the family of owls were nesting,, a couple of other families were also looking! We discovered in was in an oak tree closer to the road but spent 15 minutes looking with no luck before walking down past the small lake to find a bench surrounded by Purple Rhododendron and were quickly joined by several squirrels keen to share our lunch, sadly we had forgotten to take our bag of peanuts so were disappointed :( We then walked on past the tennis courts and through the more formal section near Ipswich School before going down to the lake with several young geese and a couple of pairs of posing Mandarin ducks, then past the large round pond with the fountain going checking to see if we could see the owls, again no luck before heading for home for a welcome cuppa. I was then pleased to see the lovely Chris Page on ITV?s About Anglia had used a pic of mine on the midday forecast featuring two Felixstowe windsurfers, sadly it did not make it to the evening programme but he used a pic of the strawberry moon I took last Saturday, so two pics in one day on the TV ? result:) Photo Album here |
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