A walk by the river Arun

Those Grasses seem unaffected by the heat. Something to remember for next year.

Lovely blog, thank you. I really fancy running my feet through the soft sand ... made me feel lime I’d been to the seaside!!

What a beautiful place! I am so impressed by those tiny front gardens...it's great to see people caring for their outside spaces. What a beautiful blue sky as well. We've had some sun today as well, and it felt quite warm again so I was pleased. :)

Thanks for taking us along on your walk, Shirley! It looks like a good job has been done there! It's great to see how new developments are landscaped nowadays! Those little gardens with so many pots full of plants really set the place off!

A lovely walk on a sunny day :) Thanks for showing the photos ...

That was a nice walk. I liked the first two front gardens very much. I'd forgotten how you get swans on the sea on your bit of coast. Are they all along the south coast? I've only seen them around Bognor but don't know the south coast very well.

Thanks everyone ... today it is really windy with torrential rain ... not a day to do this walk!

Stera, I can't recall seeing Swans at sea, just along the rivers. I must investigate that now ...

Lovely walk and a beautiful lot of Hostas in the garden. Do you think the sea air keeps the slugs away?

I am about a mile away from the sea and don't have too many slugs, but snails a'plenty! I would imagine those Hostas have many pellets beneath them ...

I do enjoy your trips out Shirley......interesting details and good photographs (saves us the petrol) lol!!the lobster sign made me chuckle!!

Dotty, I aim to please ... :o))

Was Peter hoping to have a quiet afternoon watching cricket from Lords today? Did you see the rain water on the pitch earlier? Amazing how the groundsmen/women cleared it.

What a lovely walk and weren't those little gardens pretty? It just goes to show what you can do with even a small space.

Re the swans - the ones I saw were at Pagham, which has a big lagoon, so perhaps that's the only reason they sometimes went onto the open sea.

Thanks for looking in Waddy ... that area has changed so much (for the better!) since I was young. Just a shame so many of the boat building companies have gone.

Stera, there is a lovely nature reserve at Pagham so you're probably right!

Wow, it wasn't a nature reserve in the 50s! Super place for one.

Shirley he was too busy sorting out the numerous leaks!

Stera, Google RSPB Pagham Nature Reserve to see how it looks today.

Oh dear, Dotty, hope he managed to fix them as more rain due tomorrow!

I really enjoyed your walk Shirley, that riverside walkway looks lovely and the riverside apartments very attractive, so much better than how such places looked years back, new builds in years gone by always used to look like building sites didn't they, now the landscape is done gradually as the work goes on...Lovely photographs, thankyou for sharing.

Lincs, it's all part of a regeneration scheme for Littlehampton. Not before time either!

Thank for the link Shirley. Wow,has it changed! There was nothing but shingle, salt marsh and water in the early 50s. I first learned to enjoy sardine sandwiches sitting on a shingle bank there - was so hungry I would have eaten almost anything! And there's even a beach cafe now --good grief!
We had some great holidays there based in a concrete chalet in someone's field in the village. (sanitation was an Elsan across the other side of the field - times change!)

No, thank you. I enjoyed the walk ;-)