Shotley Point Walk

It was a lovely sunny morning. We had to take William to Ipswich for a Suffolk Youth Orchestra trial rehearsal (that's him on the brochure cover!) and had 3 hours to spare before collecting him. So rather than going home and back again we went for a walk... from Shotley Point.

This was our route.

We parked by the Bristol Arms...

...starting from the old pier.. 

...and headed along the north bank of the Stour estuary to Erwarton Bay.

From here we went inland  to Shotley and on to Shotley Hall through the lovely Viking Woods..

...complete with wooden Green Man.

We stopped at Shotley Chirch to admire the immaculately kept naval graves...

..and vineyard...

...before getting to the River Orwell.

If you've been reading my blog posts, you may get a sense of déjà vu here: we've been following some of the route of Joyce's Shotley Peninsula walk! Along the way back we saw a huge container ship arriving...

 the Shotley Marina...

...and the foot ferry heading for Harwich.

A lovely couple of hours walk and we were in good time to collect the cello maestro before heading for home.

Here is a slide show of my photos...

You can see them all here on Flickr, and see more details of our route on MapMyWalk.