After our rest day we were now actively looking for a weather window to get us south once more. We were really hankering after another trip to the Rosebud in Brightlingsea but the continuous forecast for South or Southwesterly strong winds was a little frustrating. As it happened we also awoke to a thick blanket of fog!Eventually we realised that there might be a weather window that evening, and we could just about get into Brightlinsea before the harbourmaster went home. However I was feeling a little conflicted as although we needed to head south, I really wanted to explore a little more of the Orwell with the kids as we are reading "We didn't mean to go to sea" which is set in this area. We finally decided to head up to Woolverstone for lunch so we could at least sail past the famous Pin Mill where John, Susan, Titty and Roger continued their sailing adventures. We then needed to leave by ideally 3pm but definitely 4pm to make best use of the tide to Shotley.
In the end we were a little delayed setting off, the sail was a little too lovely to motor for too much of it and we didn't arrive unti 2:30pm. The marina restaurant was on the "Eat out to help out" deal and had a lovely menu, and the prospect of an evening stroll to Pin Mill meant an easy decision to delay our trip to Brightlingsea.
A really pleasant evening of walking, rope swings, tree climbing, drinking and ice creams followed and Patrick and I headed to bed with alarms set stupidly early to check weather and consider a dash south.
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