Made the most of Wetherspoons for a leisurely breakfast then set off , a bit late, to walk to Canvey Island.The promenade at Southend stretches for miles with the temptation of the smell of fresh do-nuts along the way.Leigh on Sea was a nice surprise as it had kept it’s character of a small sea…

I had a shoorter walk today to Southend. I had just got my tent paacked up when I met a lovely lady called Lisa who was walking her dog. he knew someone else who was walking the coast and we had a chat about walking. Unfortunately her labrador was less interested and by the time…

I set off feeling no worse from the dog bites but still itchy from the mosquito bites. The walk took me to Rochford along the north bank of the river Roach and then straight back out again on the south bank.There were lots of geese and waders about which helped the walk pass on. I’d…

I now had three days walking to reach Southend with two nights wild camping.After a delicious breakfast at Roy’s cooked by Julia and Kay I set off, albeit in the rain. However this soon cleared and I was following the Crouch and it’s numerous creeks once again. There was a definite shortage of places to…

I had been invited for a drink at the Green Bottle Battlesbridge this evening and so I set off early. It was going to be a long day, some 19 miles.The first half of the walk was a nice section along the Crouch with even a small hill for variety. The second part was a…

A short 12 mile walk started off in the mists of the morning. My tent was soaked with dew/condensation. In all the manuals they say to avoid condensation you should avoid camping on low lying ground or near water. Good luck with that in coastal Essex.The sun burnt through the mist and I walked along…

All in all a strange day. It started with Maldon being shUt as people prepared for the Queen’s funeral. There was little traffic and only a few people out dog walking.I went to the sea front to pick up the path and photograph the Thames Barges there. Then I discovered the zip on my rain…

The walk to Maldon was along the sea wall which bent and weaved around the creeeks and inlets. Old oyster beds could be seen often and there were people harvesting them in the mud much as they have done for hundreds of not thousands of years.I called in to the Lock tea room at Heybridge…

I left Mersea island once again at low tide and retraced my steps to Peldon where sadly the Plough was shut at 10:30am.Outside Peldon I came upon something very exciting, a forty foot high elm tree, for a short while I thought i’d found some elms resistant to Dutch elm disease but my phone told…

This was a shortish day doing a lap of Mersea Island. . The first part of the walk was leaving Peldon and getting to the Strood, the road leading to the Island. Luckily the tide was right out , on a high tide the road can flood spectacularly. My plan was to walk the sea…