Another lovely day on the beach, despite the dire warnings of stormy weather we got away with a bit of cloud which disappeared in the afternoon. This means that, of all the people who confidently told me what the weather was going to do, half were completely wrong, a quarter were half wrong and a third were a quarter wrong. You have ten minutes to produce a pie chart and a Venn diagram of this distribution. Answers on a postcard please.

There were some interesting moments snatched from overheard conversations on the beach. Along by the Stone Quay there are the remains of some rail tracks preserved on the route where stone wagons used to be loaded and shunted to waiting ships.  These rails are of an indeterminate gauge and certainly could not accommodate any modern rolling stock.  One knowledgeable person was telling his family how, when the train line was connected with the mainline at Wareham once more, the trains would come all the way to the water's edge.  If they did passengers would alight and fall directly into the sea. Another pointed knowledgeably and stated: "They look much closer than they are, according to the map the Needles are about 20 miles away but they look as though they are just along the coast."  Sadly what he was looking at were the Old Harry Rocks, which are just a couple of miles away, whereas the Needles, on the western end of the Isle of Wight, are about 20 miles away in the opposite direction.

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Stats: 16925 steps 7.21 miles
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