At Ferring the low tide exposed a rocky beach, behind which lay sand flats.  We hunted around the rocks to see what we could find; far off in the distance a man and his daughter were digging in the sand for lugworms.  This seems to be a common preoccupation down at the coast.  I wonder:  do fishermen spend more time digging for lugworms, or fishing for fish?

We found some tiny sand crabs.

Crabs were not the only fruits of our search.  We found a headless fish lying on the sand.  What was it, we wondered?

When we got home I got the books out and started trying to find what we had discovered lying on the sand.  I found some sketches of dogfish.  Could it be a dogfish?  I turned to Google and tried an images search.  I was surprised to be taken straight to the website which I know well:  Jessica’s Nature Blog.  Jessica keeps an excellent blog and I have followed it for a long time.   What a co-incidence that Google should direct me to her particular site!

It would appear that this headless carcass is that of a Lesser Spotted Dogfish.  How did it end up without a head I wondered?

As we continued west and entered Kingston Gorse, we noticed that the houses overlooking the sands seemed to be getting quite expensive.  A wide expanse of well-tended grass separated them from the beach itself.

And then, by the time we reached Angmering-on-Sea, the houses were so expensive you couldn’t see them any more!

The fact that we couldn’t see anything but walls to our right was fine; we were more interested in the views to our left.

Points on this part of the walk (copy and paste the co-ordinates into Google Earth):

• Houses at Kingston Gorse: N 50° 48.200 W 000° 27.955
• Walled Gardens at Angmering-on-Sea:  N 50° 48.191 W 000° 29.390

Walk #55 Statistics (of which this post forms the third part):

• Date of Walk: 1 June 2013
• Walk #55 total distance covered: 8.58 miles
• Coast of Britain Walk Total Distance Covered: 454.22 miles
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