A beautiful autumn afternoon yesterday, high clouds in a blue sky, the sun low, a brisk easterly blowing across the water, the air cold and sweet; I had an irresistable urge to be outside, so I headed off to Lepe, some twenty minutes south of Hythe, on the coast between Calshot and Beaulieu.
It was glorious, the tide was coming in, there were oystercatchers and gulls on the shoreline, yachts tacking back and forth on the Solent, the Isle of Wight in the distance, children playing, people walking along the shingle, people sitting on groynes, their backs to the wind, the sun in their eyes, everyone happy to be there.
But it was too lively for me, so I headed along the coast and off the beaten track to the quiet of the Dark Water; the ground soft underfoot, the reflected sky, two coots upstream and a kingfisher perched on a protruding post in the bank. Perfect peace, as you can see from the photo.
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