A beautiful clear sunny day but with a nice bit of coastal breeze preventing it from feeling too hot, however we change our plans from heading out in the van and opt instead for an early walk, taking advantage of the low tides to walk along the firm, wet sand heading eastwards.

A glance back from the beach to show the proximity of our campsite – Normans Bay CCC….

And a quick survey of the beach infront of the site – Normans Bay Campsite Beach…

As we make our way down onto the sand which is much easier to walk on than the pebble bank and has the added benefit of keeping us cool. The sea is flat calm so Tilly is quite happy to trot along the shoreline.

Normans Bay is just a hand full of houses, some lucky enough to be perched on the pebble bank along with a few small fishing boats and what might be a Martello Tower….

Further along the beach we reach the larger village of Cooden and it’s beach….

We continue a little further to the outskirts of Bexhill-on-Sea where a sea mist is starting to roll in….

We plan to visit Bexhill another day, so at this point we head back to Cooden where the sea mist can’t reach us and sit on the pebble bank for a while just enjoying the sun and tranquility – there is something quite soothing to the soul on these long stretches of seemingly almost untouched beaches.

We don’t linger too long as it is getting rather warm and the tide is coming in and we manage to make it most of the way back to site along the sand until the tide pushes us back onto the pebble bank for the last few hundred yards.

Having had a decent walk we spend a delicious afternoon back on site, me reading in the sun and Tilly snoozing in the shade underneath the van – delightful.

Today’s stats:

• Miles walked – 6
• Beaches – 4
• O/N – £11.10