Medmerry Walk Soon to be gone forever

Medmerry walk with Marie

View along Medmerry towards Portsmouth.  Mmm quite enough shingle.

West Sands new area getting quality top soil. Looking across and through to Ham, Siddlesham and the downs beyond.

The Base of the main sea defence backing on to West Sands. This is close to where the breach will be taking place.  

The most northerly point of our walk today only a 2 miler. but wonderful weather.

20120219 WestSands Marie Me 2ml.kmz
 you can see from the elevation profile below the fall and rise was between zero feet and 10 feet.

Goodwood-Halnaker HeartSmart Walk

If you are wanting to look at something, look at something that's worth looking at.

Heartsmart Walkers being led by Peter, taking a breather and admiring the statues at the Goodwood Sculpture Park which is operated by the Cass Sculpture Foundation.

Goodwood Halnaker HeartSmart Walk Pt2

 This straight gallop is one mile, up, climbing from an elevation of  only 75m(250ft) through to 150m(500ft). its EASY.  Looks hard, looks longer than a mile thankfully we turned off at the mile. We were being sheltered by the trees from the bitter North Easterly winds and in an environment where the remaining snow and ice not had not yet thawed. 

  Seeing the deer track through the trees towards us was  exciting enough, but when they turned and bounded away was an awesome site and over in a flash. One fox crossed our path and no-one stopped to look. They are now a common site everywhere. I'm sure the crisp air helped us all get our wind back very quickly. Letting our pulses return to normal at both of our breather / shoe lightening breaks. 

Just by removing the mud from ones shoes removes about a Kg of mud. Yes take a break, scrape it off and you feel lighter already.  Quicker than any diet.  This walk upwards certainly gets the blood pumping, the heart beating in a nice quick rhythm and on a wonderful day like this you feel good, well I did. 

 The gentle decent downward from the car park certainly let us know we would have a climb somewhere and this was only a little surprise. After we turned off this straight track it was fairly level and  exceptionally gentle under foot. Walking off-road for most of this 4 miler, all in all a walk where I will say 9/10. Well done Peter and HeartSmart for the Goodwood-Halnaker 20120213.

Goodwood Halnaker Route to download into GoogleEarth, etc.