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Barn Owl and Hare photographs taken by David Davis, from pitch 5 on the CL. June 2017
BURNHAM WICK - Nikki Linfield
Under the silver new moon
Your white wingspan stretches
afar
your dinner held
tightly
You glide into your tree
You feed your family
You wise owl of the barn
so smooth
so sleek
so discreet
amidst the trees
your fields of corn
your growing crops you
glide
me eyes feast on the
beauty of being
the peace of
birdsong
the space of
nature
Lapwings in the set
aside
Swifts dancing on the
currents of the evening breeze
set under the lowering
sun
Pigeons dance in the
tree
While the hares skip with
the ponies grazing in fresh meadow grass
their noses tickled by
whispering grass
Burnham Wick site
nestled at the tip of the Dengie peninsula
and island of its own
beauty
You will be bathed in the
fullness of peace
the beauty of the world
as it is
you get far more than can
be written
your soul will
feast
your eyes a-freshed
tucked away a mile from
town
the world is yours to be
with
heaven for me
to walk
to run
to cycle
to sail
to kayak
to be
to photograph
to write
This to me spells
MECCA
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what do you need?
camera binoculars walking
/running stuff
journal
bikes
water born toys
peaceful happiness
awaits
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Kayaking Wallasea
island
We left 1 hour
before low water down the channel to channel markers and red green red buoy heading towards a church after passing mud processing treatment works - paddling against tide , then turn
towards Pedelsham creek, when you go down here watch for seals playing, as you see the yachts moored at Pagelsham take the channel to right hand side marked by bouys
then up follow this until
2 large route options take the right hand one you will see the back of Essex marina and powerlines come into sight there is a broken wooden board at the end and follow it if you are earlier than 1
hour before it may seem like a mudscape well it is and loads of birds at about High water you get to the end and see the marina/powerlines and we found two small burgees one red one green climb
out here lift kayaks walk over road and get back in and head over towards Creeksea sailing club
camera needed for seals,
waddling ducks and other things you find old artefacts of the sea
Kayak around Osea from
stone pub in Blackwater can also do northsea island as a figure of 8
Could put in at Maldon at
big Promenade car park and go round Thames barges an dislands
or through Maldon follow
river look for signs to the basin and in at canal the other side ( locks) ( fees for parking and water use)or near high water you can get into the sea but need highish water to get back
out.
Kayak down from site past
Creeksea to nature island ( forgotten name) and back past Essex marina
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Photos and write-up courtesy of Nikki and Nik Linfield; visitors to our CL in June 2016