Friday 9th July - Yarmouth - Keyhaven

The next day dawned fine and bright.

Whilst breakfast was prepared Adam had some practice on his Uke, ready for the Poole rally in August.

We set out in a gently breeze and made our way down to the Needles, catching a mackerel en route.

The Needles was very calm, and we were surprised to see a man, apparently unconnected to the light house in any official capacity, standing on the top waving down at us.

We heading back into Alum Bay and anchored. Having rowed into the beach had had a walk we decided to take the chair lift to the top of the cliffs. I would recommend this trip to anyone... but... do be prepared for the assault on your senses when you get to the top. The change from a peaceful beach to kiss me quick is quite dramatic.

It is worth it though for the view coming back down.

From Alum we made our way across to Hurst and into the narrow channel leading to Keyhaven. Another visit ashore to look at the fort itself, before we headed up to Keyhaven itself and met up with Barry and Pauline. We had a drink with them at the Sailing club and then adjourned to a local pub to eat.