Pagham Walk; Inspired by HeartSmart

Pagham Walk.KMZ

Fri 19th October – 10:30am PAGHAM
L: Jane M: TBC
Approx 4 miles. Flat. A longer walk taking in parts of Pagham Harbour Nature Reserve and Seashore.
Some stiles and can be muddy and slippery underfoot.
Meet: Car park at the junction of Sea Lane and The Parade (usually free of charge).
By Car: Take B2145 from A27 Chichester bypass, left on B2166 Pagham Road and follow signs to
Pagham, left down Sea Lane to junction with The Parade on the left. Car park is on the left immediately
after the junction and opposite the Beach Café.

The Walk is clearly 4½ miles and approximately 2hrs. with the added enjoyment of good company, highly recommended and I hope to do it again.    The organised walk Led by Jane is to the right of the two white bars. The area to the left is to the RSPB Pagham Nature Reserve. This added another 3¼ miles to this walk.

I did not plot the other part of my journey for personal reasons.

The Harbour changes every time I visit it.  This proved to be at Low Tide and walking on the shoreline at what is mean high tide was slightly slippery and occasionally very smelly. The Harbour entrance is moving so far Eastward towards Pagham it is so strange to think back how it has migrated over 200m over the past 15 years.

The day is quite soft with gentle showers on an intermittent basis. If there is one problem it was not the puddles but the timber on the stiles we had to use. Being wood and wet they were basically very slippery, 'walker be aware'.

 The Rifes were alive with insects and water birds. Where are they? As always when I took the lens cap off the camera, they just headed for cover. The birds throughout the harbour were in wonderful song. From the chatter of the Goldfinches through to the calls of the Carrion Crows and Rooks. Occasional interrupted by the the high pitched call of the Curlew.  I had the opportunity to photograph over thirty different birds today and several insects but no mammals. To capture the swans in flight was so hard they just seemed to be so far away, but I did manage two photos I will post in one of my other blogs.

Jane Good Walk, Thank you C     Paul nice to meet you.