For the last 10 yrs or so i have always watched the sunrise come up on the 21st of june, this yrs location was landguard fort (www.landguard.com) My dad could join me this year as well. I stay the night at his to avoid disturbing my kids and wife when i would leave.
2am we left and rode the 70 miles to the fort, well we would of done if i had set the GPS right, hint here dont use the landmarks in mapsource, as it lead us to the ferry port and was try to tell us to get on the ferry to the fort,a quick recalculate and we are on the road again, nice back roads between harwich and Felixstowe, we arrive at the fort car park with 30 minutes to spare before the sun comes up. Gear off the bikes, down the path across the dune to the sea and we are ready. Cloud cover was a bit heavy but we could see where the sun would come from.
cameras ready, sun is coming out, take some pictures, beep beep camera has flat batteries, quick change of batteries take 2 pictures beep beep flay batteries again!! All 4 kodak batteries were new, taken from the packet the night before. yet all 4 of them were flat, spent the next couple of hrs swapping batteries around to get a few pictures then swap for a few more etc.
Sun was well up by the time we got the stove out for a coffeee and some bacon rolls, what is it with coffeee and bacon rolls on the beach early morning light, listening to the sea gentling roll in, felt good, alive again after the drag of work and family life, felt me again. the local dog walkers thought we had camped over, also gave us some strange looks as did the bird watcher who was there.
Stove and the rest of the gear packed up and time for a walk along the dunes, Down to the fre car ark with the welcoming toilets, along a bit further turn around and back up to the fort and the bikes. it was 8.55am the fort doesnt open until 10.0am so what elese can two bikers do at that time of the morning after 3 hrs kip the night before, yep we settled down in the car park, sun warming our faces and went to sleep. 20 minutes later and i am awake again hearing a strange noise. " shit i fel sorry for my mum" the noise was my dad snoring his head off.
At 10.00am we went into the fort english heritage members means we get in for free, grabbed a couple of audio tours and we went visiting. ( The audio tours were very good) The fort was an interesting place to visit, Lots to see and learn. After we finished there it was time for a cuppa and a cake at the burger bar in the car park around the corner and then the ride back home.
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