Pagham to Worthing (July 5th)

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.

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