Thursday 18th September 2025
Miles 13.63 Miles
Elevation Gain 114 feet
Total days walking 87 (excluding the swcp)
Total mileage 1770.53 (including the swcp)
Still full from last night's Italian delights, we wake up to a bright sunny morning & prepare ourselves for the day's walking.
Setting off down the road back to the coast path past newly ploughed fields & trimmed hedges, the feeling in the air is that autumn is on its way as the season changes.
Back on the Coast Path, we fire up Strava & set off along the path, a newly constructed path, poorly constructed, basically, just a new fence with the shrubbery cut down & very uneven.
The vegetation is making a comeback, & sadly, if the path is not often used or managed, it will soon be overtaken by nature once again.
We are now closer to the RAF targets & we are passing by the viewing towers, all locked up & dormant. A little further on, we turn slightly inland & up onto the grassy flood defences.
We once again see lots of butterflies, dragonflies, wild birds, Muntjac deer & grey wild ponies nibbling at the fruit on the wild apple trees. We have seen far more dragonflies & butterflies this year than in previous years a sign of the changing climate?
We pass the sight of the Tank-on-the-beach. Yes, the TheddleThorpe Tank, a real tank that was driven onto the beach & left, allegedly it was driven there by a relative of someone who was coincidentally visiting on the same day as we were passing by!
The Tank is so famous that it appears on Google Maps.
Nearing the end of the day, we are on the beach next to the sea, so it's time to remove those boots & socks & feel the sand between our toes, so that's what we do for the next mile or so. Soon we need to leave the beach, so we go to the first café we come to, where we have a big mug of tea & a cheese roll while our feet dry in the sun, boots back on & a short walk into town to our Hotel.
Private road!
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