April 14th
Arrived at Southampton Central at 8:33am to
meet up with Naomi and crew. Joe and Sam were there with me as we waited till
everyone gathered around 9am. We got tickets to go to New Milton where we were
then going to walk to Lymington.
After we began our walk we eventually made
it to the seaside where there was a steep drop off almost considered a cliff to
get down to the walking trail on the beach. We shimmied down the clay/rock face
and at the beach it was just gorgeous. We walked along the beach for a good
distance eventually taking a brief water/apple break to enjoy the scenery.
Despite weather forecast predicting it to rain, the weather for the most part
held out for us. At the half way point we reached a castle, which was built in
the late 19th century. During our break there, Joe slyly loaded
Matts backpack with rocks making it about 3 times the weight it normally was.
Surprisingly as we continued our trek Matt didn’t notice the extra weight and
we continued by taking a small ferry over to a town nearby Lymington cutting
off possibly an hour from our walk. Once off the ferry, we had to make a
decision whether to take the meandering pedestrian route along the coast or the
more direct cyclist route through farm land and pastures to get to Lymington.
Well none of us could make up our mind for the group really, so Joe pulled out
a ten pence and we dubbed heads would go the long route and tails for the
shorter route. Heads came out first, but then Joe said two out of three, while
others in the group decided the cyclist route since we were getting pretty
hungry after walking for at least 3 to 4 hours. About the time that we decided
to take the shorter route, Joe had also flipped the coin two more times in each
case resulted in tails. After a lovely jaunt we finally made it to Lymington
and at the pub called the Kings Head, Matt discovered the rocks in his bag! It
was quite to everyone’s amusement, even Naomi was in on the prank.
Making a quick stop to the boat launch, we
laughed as Matt dumped the rocks out of his bag into the water in almost a
ceremonial manner.
A bit in a hurry not to miss the train,
Naomi, Hannah, and I waited as the guys popped into various shops for last
minute fudge purchases and Joe bought a butterfly net for Matt as a present.
Today just was great for humour and a great
day all together!
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