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squiz Member Member#: 6644 Location: Registered: 27-05-2007 Diary Entries: 3070 |
12th July 2023 Hiking - Walking: Newbourne Springs Wind Direction: Wind Stength: Surf / Sea State: Air Temperature: Sea Temperature: Weather: sunny periods Max Speed: Distance Covered: Tuesday 11th July - walk *** Newbourne Springs - sunny periods . The started well when I saw I had two pics in the local paper, the EADT and was hoping to go windsurfing again today but the wind was slow to build. So I did my exercises in the sunny back garden, then Mag and I were going out for a picnic but had to walk to Lidl via Felixstowe prom and the wind had built so I left Mag to do the shopping and went home to get my windsurfing kit. I headed down to Squiz Lane at The Manor and it looked good, fairly cross shore with white horses so I quickly set up my foil board and was rigging my 6.5 but then the wind offshore and dropped, it looked really unstable and I could not wait for things sort themselves out as I had arranged to pick up two Tushingham sails I have just bought to replace my much loved Tushingham Thunderbird 6.5 which has now died having used it 95 times so it does owe me a penny. So I went home for lunch then made a flask, packed snacks then Mag and I drove over to Newbourne Springs for a walk around the reserve, always one of our favourites:) Saw loads of black sheep but sadly not much wildlife. We ambled around the railway sleepers rrunning by the springs and sat up in the heath section to enjoy our cuppa with some top clouds overhead:) Then back to the van and called in to Katies Plants where Mag bought three plants from the sale section before driving over to Bucklesham where I was picking up my new sails but we called into Bucklesham Church for the first time ever, lovely old church too:) I picked up my new sails from a very nice young man, a 6.5 and 5.5 in good condition at a bargain price, cant wait to try them out! Then after tea we had some torrential rain, thunder and lightning too so I jumped in the van and went looking for a rainbow and quickly found one at the end of our road. I drove down to The Fludyers and around to The Dip as the storm headed past Bawdsey. I ended up at Felixstowe Ferry as the sun came out as the Ferry sailing club dinghy racing was starting on the River Deben with a rainbow over them, just stunning:) I got a few pics before heading for home, both our cat got soaked too! Photo Album here |
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