23.0 miles, clear sky am gradually clouding over.
At 6am sitting on the side of Pagham harbour life really couldn’t have been much more perfect, i worked my way around the natural harbour which is much of salt marsh and amongst the myriad of species were heron, little egret, peewit and shell duck, i came upon a fox wandering amongst the marsh as the tide had been and gone in the night, unfortunately he saw me at the same time i spotted him so no chance of sneaking up for a photo.
The coast turns back into a shingle bank where i took a tiny diversion into Pagham town to find a sausage roll and bottle of orange (all that’s available at this hour), and of all the surprises a car pulled up and offered me a lift (had to turn it down again). Soon after i took the above photo looking back along it.
Approaching Bognor regis, the pier comes into view and when i got close the advertising showed i had arrived to early for the anual bird man competition which had been taking place for several years and would probably be a good day out.
At Middleton-on-sea the big feature is the number of breakwaters built form imported rocks to protect (retain) the remaining sand.
Reaching Littlehampton involves a turn inland along the rhe river bank to reach a retractable foot bridge which is apparently a two mile saving on the road route for cars. The town was rather busy with all the fun of the fair which sure attracted a lot of tourists, then it’s back onto the pebble beach and continue east until Worthing peir came into view, this on close inspection looks to be the biggest i have passed so far.
I can’t say there has been much in the way of slopes over the last couple of days, but there has been a lot of miles of walking on shingle which has left my legs feeling they have been a long way.
hi john,
should be reaching Eastbourne soon, if i see you i will say hello. As always great blogs and great adventures, one day maybe i’ll be able to do the same!!! Thanks for the comments Andy, it’s always nice to meet people along the way, at the moment it’s unlikely i will have time to do much more coast as i should be in north wales next week. Cheers J.P.