The tradition is to have a dip in the sea when you reach Dunwich beach, and there seemed to be a lot more takers than usual this year, probably on account of the glorious weather. Until this morning, I've always considered Dunwich beach to be one of the most inhospitable places. Every finish we've been to has been horribly windy, and often quite rainy too. This morning however, it was very still, not even a bit of breeze, and quite pleasantly warm.
I didn't get a lot of sleep ... cyclists starting arriving about 1.30, and I hadn't managed to sleep before then. After riders started arriving, it wasn't possible to sleep well, because walking over the pebbles is very noisy, and well, when they get off their bikes, they walk. I'd parked as far away from the Flora cafe as I could, to minimise any noise from arriving cyclists, but all the cyclists wanting to have a bit of a kip on the beach walked past me.
I got up and started taking photos when Nick arrived, around 3.40am, and we eventually left Dunwich at about 6am, stopping for breakfast with Nick's mom on the way home, and getting home a bit after 10.
