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1st July 2024
Hiking - Walking: Orwell County Park Wind Direction: Wind Stength: Surf / Sea State: Air Temperature: Sea Temperature: Weather: sunny periods Max Speed: Distance Covered: 3.32 miles (Nautical Miles - unless stated otherwise)
Monday 1st July - walk **** – Orwell Country Park with a picnic by
the Orwell – sunny periods.
Out at 6 this morning to take a few weather pics to send to the TV and the
day started cloudy so looked for things with some colour, yellow beach huts
and flowers at Landguard Fort. There was a hint of enough offshore breeze
for a foil but we had loads to do so didn’t bother, especially as its
looking better later in the week and the tides will be better! So did my
exercises I the garden with the sun making an appearance, I packed a picnic
before we headed out to pick up a very heavy free pot for Mags front garden
before heading to Lidl for a big shop. I wanted to see if Sports Direct to
see if they had a Gul impact/boucancy vest we went to one of our favourites
first, Orwell Country Park. We walked it the other way around again by
heading back across the A 14 and through the windy path through the woods,
over a clear stream, then we heard a helicopter circling and spotted the
police one searching overhead, in fact it did several circuit before
disappearing. We came out by the Orwell Bridge and there were two search
boats out on the water so something was definitely up? We didn’t walk
past the small holding this time with its many animals and took the river
path under the impressive bridge, stopping to say hello to 3 fine horses.
The tide was very low and there were several birds I the mud, mainly gulls,
but we did spot several herons and a shell duck with swans on the other
side of the Orwell. We sit in a nice sheltered spot opposite Stoke Sailing
club with views across the water of Freston tower, there were several
yachts motoring up and down, it was very quiet today and we hardly saw
anyone:) With the tide low we continued along the foreshore before turning
onto the woodland path as a tree has fallen on the beach, in fact there are
several on the verge of going:( We then turned away from the river, up
through the pine wood to the car park where there was several police and
coast guard vehicles search apparently for a missing man after his car was
found nearby:( It was then a quick trip to Sports Direct and B & Q both
turning out to be completely useless and hope to never go there again! Wow
sport on the TV is really getting on my nerves, firstly boring football and
now the tennis on two BBC channels which is even worse, will be pleased
when it is all over!
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