Sunday, 27th December 2020
Truly bored of covid / lockdown / tiers now. How I'm craving some wild, woolly, remoteness. The nearest I can get to that locally is this. It still remains my favourite local walk but I'm in danger of over-doing it and getting bored of it.
Seeing as I've done this walk many, many times this will most likely be the last time I write about it. I mean, just how many pictures of the same thing do folks need to see?!
So these pics, to round off my challenge, are a bit different. I went "mud-bagging" instead.
Not off to a good start on the health-and-safety'd-to-death refurbed sea defences:
It's improving with a couple of nice, big puddles as I head "inland":
After plodding down the road, I turn off onto the nature reserve car park. At least the path out of there and up onto the embankment looks promising:
HuuuUUUUUuuuugh puddle. Only kidding, it's the small nature reserve pond:
Hmmm, I have to confess a level of disappointment at the amount of mud so far, although this isn't too bad - Squelch Factor 4 I think:
Up onto the embankment and I come across this sign. It's a new sign and I'm pretty sure nobody will take any notice of it as the "ramp" is waaaaay off in the distance and the car park is to my right. It's also the least muddy, slippery bit of the whole walk. Epic Fail Paull Parish Council:
Now, here's some proper mud. Some perma-mud. The tidal mudflats of the Humber. I don't think it counts really:
A disappointing Squelch Factor of 3 for this I think:
Getting back onto the engineered path and the best I could find was a couple of puddles:
Now this. THIS. This is worthy of a Squelch Factor 7. It's wide, it's deep and it's slippery. Cracking bit of mud, this:
Through the woodland now which reveals a churned up engineered path:
Empty container ship on the Humber (which is just one big mudbath at low tide):
As always, this is a lovely little walk with a bit of all sorts in it. It's getting more and more popular though, even the secret off-piste bits that I do. Of course, it's nice to see so many people getting out in the fresh air but please, can you all stay at home when I want to walk here.
So there you have it. I've completed my challenge with days to spare. That's a first for me!
Thanks for reading 😊
