It was a beautiful sunny morning early November and I fancied a ramble along the coast.  Not far from my base in Bexhill was Rye Harbour and bay including the nature reserve, that was where I was heading today with my camera.

Isolated Rye

The small coastal harbour can get quite busy with visitors and tourists later in the day especially when its sunny but early in the morning you will more or less have the place to yourself.   The walk starts at a Marbello tower a relic from the Napoleonic times, then along the estuary of the river Rother to the shingle on the beach.

Stopping down to F/22 gives me a shutter speed of 1/10 sec which has resulted in some motion blur on the waves crashing into the shore and against the weather worn groynes.   In the distance you can see the Old abandoned lifeboat house.  This has not been used since one stormy night in 1928.  Its a memorial to the crew who never returned one night in an attempted rescue.  Very eerie.

Rye Lagoons

All along the coastal bay are inland lagoons which are part of a nature reserve and its a bird watchers haven with bird hides dotted around the banks.

A lovely walk along the coast of Rye before heading back inland and following the path back towards the harbour area.

You pass disused pits which are now part of the nature reserve leading all the way up to the spire of Rye Harbour church which made a nice landscape photo with some red berries in the foreground.  I often consider what makes a good landscape photo? would someone sit down and do an oil painting of the same scene and composition?  I think so in this case.

It was a beautiful day in November, still officially Autumn and I continued to enjoy the sunshine on the balcony of my seafront flat in Bexhill along with Cecil the seagull.