We decided to go for a walk along the waterfront at Stokes Bay. Ever since the COVID lockdowns, I have carried very little cash. That can be a bit of a nightmare when it comes to paying for car parking. The council have tried several things and luckily just about every car park in and around the town have a number of options for paying; cash, of course, by using contactless – I’ve found that this has worked quite well, but then a change was made to use a phone app. I think people found this somewhat concerting. I’m not sure why, perhaps it was a concern about signal strength, but I’ve never found a problem pretty much anywhere in the town.
Car parking sorted via the app, Elayne and I set off. Elayne’s exercise regime requires a thirty minute walk, a slow and steady pace saw us reach Pebbles cafe at the turnaround point, reaching the car just as the thirty minute timer sounded.
I left Elayne with the heating on, she was fine and I went off for another quick twenty minute stroll, just to get a few more steps in.
One of the things I always look out for is what ships we can see out in the Solent. There were several moving around and one in particular caught my attention as it followed the channel and came closer to the mainland, I did wonder if it was one of the bunkering ships judging from its deck infrastructure, and indeed it turned out to be the Whitchampion. It’s been a while since I last saw her, so that was very nice.
By the time we left the car park to drive home for a nice cup of tea, we had just four minutes left on the parking app, so we definitely got our money’s worth.
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