The Gorse Fox was back at the top. The small sliver of oilseed at the top centre of the photo showed, tantalizingly, where the car was parked. There was a new spring in the step as the Gorse Fox strode on, overtaking the few dawdling groups of strollers enjoying this stretch of the South Downs Way.
Almost at the car park this deep path, Westmeston Bostall, dives over the edge of the Downs to the village below. It's not clear what the background to this is, but a bostall probably comes from the old English "fortified site".
Finally back at the car the view off to the south-east was much clearer than when the Gorse Fox had set out this morning. The sun was picking out the white cliffs near Newhaven, and daubs of oilseed brighten the folds in the intervening countryside.
GF has said it before, but Sussex is a beautiful county.
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