This week it's Cowes Week, the world's largest sailing regatta based at Cowes on the Isle of Wight. http://www.cowes.co.uk Races are held daily on the Solent (providing there is enough wind!) and there is plenty of entertainment on dry land too. As today was forecast to be one of the best days of the week we headed to Lepe Beach overlooking the Solent, where in many previous years we have had an excellent view of the yachts racing. Armed with a picnic and everything necessary for a beach day out we were hoping for some great photo opportunities, unfortunately the weather had other ideas and apparently racing was cancelled due to a lack of wind - hmmmmmml!!! One year when we were watching the yachts there were all manner of problems as they got into trouble and needed rescuing because it was too windy. Hey ho, the good old unpredictable British summer weather.
Never mind, it was a lovely hot day so we had a walk and then relaxed on the beach for a couple of hours.
There were quite a few yachts about, just not racing and only in the distance basically going no where fast!
Lepe played an important part in the D-Day Landings and the wartime evidence can be seen on the beach and on the shoreline
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