Candy striped beach huts stand astride a shingle dune on the southern tip of Hayling Island.
With a wing foiler at play on a lightly rippled sea below.
Practicing airborne pirouettes until they are perfect.
Stargazer's skipper arrived at his vantage spot via the shores of Langstone Harbour.
With views of Portsmouth's permanently powerfully bellied Spinnaker Tower. A memento of the Millenium celebrations, a quarter of a century ago.
Which were the prompt to launch Missee Lee and begin the cruising journey that has brought him here, aboard Stargazer.
The signage of this shoreside footpath has been subject to some royal rebranding.
Formerly it was known as the "Hayling Billy" trail. (In a couple of spots it still is).
For it follows the bed of a pre-Beeching-cuts steam railway.
With optional scenic detours.
Now, it has become the King Charles Coastal Path. Billy banished, by dint of freshly erected fingerposts bearing the name of the monarch.
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