Martin's Mag.

It’s Autumn, but the weather doesn’t seem to agree. So we’ve spent a few more nights in the camper, south of Chichester in West Sussex. We had a terrific cycle ride, including West Wittering, a precarious ferry crossing, Bosham and the Chichester Ship Canal:

Chichester from Poyntz bridge over the Chichester Canal, by JMW Turner, 1828, and how it looks today:

We also visited Selsey, Pagham and Hayling Island.

We were joined, during our lunch break working on Walton Common, by the five Dexter cattle who help us keep the grass and weeds under control.

Freda the camper has had a service and general “tightening up” of her belts and other corsetry, and is running well. So we had a couple of nights in her to the west of Minehead in North Somerset. We met three generations of Wheelers in Minehead for a day on the beach.

 

Near Corfe Castle in Dorset.

Walton Common, down the coast a little from Portishead, is managed by the Avon Wildlife Trust and a team of volunteers, headed by Dave Horlick, whose excellent blog is HERE. We (I do my best to assist occasionally) erected some new shiny information boards recently.

The Dengie Peninsular lies between the rivers Blackwater and Crouch, in Essex. Not far from where I spent my early years. It’s an attractive area, ideal for cycling and walking, with very friendly, helpful people. Not the widely-held view of Essex. We camped on Mark Farm, a family-run organic farm near Tillingham.

In Carmarthenshire, on the opposite side of the estuary to the Gower peninsular. We cycled from Gorseinon, past Llanelli to Bury Port and back. Spectacular; weather brilliant.