Also, while walking the short distance from the free Daisy Meadows car park to the two pubs on the waterfront, you can get a glance of someone's private plastic zoo in their back garden in the gaps in the trees.
Instead of walking my normal walk along the Chelmer and Blackwater Navigation, this time I followed the basin around, past the yacht club, round the back of the caravan park and up to Mill Beach, which really is a beach! By the time I'd walked this far down the river had become tidal and there was a much stronger smell of the famous Maldon sea salt.
Most of the track was a concrete path but some of it was a muddy track. The trick is to walk along the sea wall to avoid the mud.
I'd walked past this decaying boat about half an hour before and it was sitting on a mudbank. The tide had risen a few feet since then - it comes in quickly on this part of the coast.
The land on the other side is Northsey Island, which was cut off from the mainland due to the high tide. It's on my list to visit at some point this year.
And here's Mill Beach! I wonder how busy it gets in the summer?
It didn't rain but I did get to see a rainbow!
It was my longest walk of the year. Working my way up to that marathon then.
3.60 miles in 1 hr 9 min 11 sec (ave 3.12mph)
Calories burned 590; steps taken 7,839; elevation 28 ft
8 deg C, cloudy
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