The wind during the night had ripped off the sun (!!!!!) canopy. We were woken at 2am with the canvas flapping in the wind and banging on the side of the van. Thank goodness no one was around to see the comical site of me in my underpants wrestling with said accessory. To be fair it wasn’t that windy so not sure if at least part of the problem wasn’t user error?
The typical Brunnehilda morning of tea in bed and a very substantial omelette was the usual smashing start to the day. Edengate has a small and secluded dog run field which the dogs now seem to find their way to without too much guidance from me.
We were washed and ready to go soon after midday. The plans was to go to nearby Milford on Sea for a beach walk. The tide was right in and the little bit of shingle beach had disappeared altogether. There was plenty of walk along the front - but not with our dogs! We aborted and moved along to Milford’s neighbour - Barton on Sea.
It wasn’t much better. The topography had now changed and there was more of a cliff between the promenade and the sea. Again there wasn’t much of a beach even if you could make it down the cliff. So ...
We decided to go somewhere we knew - Sandbanks. To get there it necessitated a drive across a fairly busy Christchurch and Bournemouth. The 18 miles took us nearly an hour but it was a pleasant enough drive.
We parked in the normal car park and had a smashing couple of hours. The west end of the beach, going up towards the Ferry, is an all year round dog beach so there was lots of room for Tilly and Ben to enjoy chasing the waves and seagulls. There was lots of dogs everywhere but ours behaved very well.
We had our packed lunch on the rocks watching the world go by and drooling at some of the magnificent properties backing onto the beach. Time for a coffee (with, in my case a vast amount of maltesers!) and then back to the car with 2 smelly, sandy and satisfied dogs!
The rain started on the way home. We were going to go back to Milford and get another walk - assuming it would be less busy and the tide would be further out. Both were correct but the torrential rain trumped them both.
We rang the local Thai restaurant (as recommended by Laura and George) as soon as they were open and picked it up on our way back to Brunnehilda.
The Thai from the Britannia Thai restaurant in Milford was exceptionally good. As were the 2 episodes of The Waltons and even better, me slaughtering Kim at backgammon.
An early night again but I don’t think we were both particularly tired (too much on our minds probably!), so we ended up watching quite a bit of Netflix in bed!
We leave tomorrow and make the short (in miles anyway!) journey up to Shaftesbury.
Edengate CL Caravan Site, Lymington:
Pros:
1) Quiet and secluded
2) Close enough to drive to lots of places
3) Perfect pitch by the water tap
4) Nice convenient dog field
5) Big pitches so lots of room
Cons:
1) Facilities shut (COVID related)
2) On a busy road so no where to walk to
3) No particular views
I think with the facilities opened this would be a great site to revisit for a couple of days.
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