What a naff area I live in for windsurfing !!! rubbish wind stats, no flat water or waves - only broken 30 kts locally once and never sailed more than about 60 k in a day in the 25 years I have lived there !!!!! :( :( :( - the  shortboarding is crap - the only good thing is the longboard cruising, just as well I love my Cat :) perhaps I should try kiting again - looks loads of fun :) After last Sunday cold bumpy sail at the Fludgers in a cold bumpy open I couldn't face that again so took the gear to Levington even though it was a midday low water. The nice people at Levington Marina have blocked my access to the marina entrance :( so I had to walk a bit further to launch :( It seemed quite breezy when I arrived so rigged the 8.5 , discovered I had a broken battern but used it anyway !!! The first few runs across the bay were the fastest but much slower than the last I sailed here :( then the wind dropped even further - but thats nothing new this way ! I sailed up to the docks and saw a bird I have never seen before and when I got home checked a local birding site and it was a Great Northern Diver :) and then in front of Levington Creek were many hundreds of Dunlins and lapwings flying all around me :) and the on the way home the waxwings were back on the cut through road between Levington and Trimley - I rushed home to get Mag and went back and she was pleased to she her first waxwings - about 20 and we got really close too. So the windsurfing might have been preety average but the birds were fantastic :)