I returned to the same place I'd been to earlier in the day, as I felt there was more that could be done there.

Something was making me feel that today was going to be a good day. I was excited by the prospect of something meaningful happening, and felt a real sense of anticipation. Nothing out of the ordinary had happened so far though, although I did see an interesting bird around this point.

I decided to test out my theory that introducing red into the environment would be a good thing to do. Someone's red jacket did the job for me, in fact. To be a bit more precise, what I actually decided to do was to photograph a red person who happened to be going past. Still, that was a decision wasn't it? They all count.

I sat down for a while by the side of the canal. There was a large piece of concrete piping jutting out into the water, which seemed noteworthy. I tried rocking it by standing on it; the pipe moved a bit, and some bubbles came to the surface; the water around it also turned slightly cloudy, but not a lot else happened. Whilst I was sitting I noticed that the moon was visible in the sky, and started thinking about the lunar effect on the tides. I'd read something once about how Kepler had initially been ridiculed when he suggested that the tides might be linked to the moon. It had apparently seemed like baloney at the time. The article had talked about the surprising similarities between scientific discovery and comedy, which also brings together previously unimagined combinations of disparate elements.

None of this had anything in particular to do with where I was, or what I was trying to do today however.

After that I walked along the path for a short distance; then I turned round and walked back.

Later I climbed some sort of viewing platform, and enjoyed the panoramic views.

This road in particular interested me. When I'd finished looking at it from up here, I climbed down and cycled along its length. The headwind made the journey quite difficult, even though it was totally flat. As an experiment I tried going in the other direction: I noticed that it was possible to "sail" along, moving purely by the force of the wind, without pedalling at all. I found I was making very slow progress however, so I didn't pursue that for long.

At the end of the road was a sign pleading with people not to walk or cycle along it, so as not to disturb the birds. It seemed a fairly laid-back sign however, not suggesting at all that it was actually forbidden to use the road. It even mentioned "free will" in small print at the bottom. These kinds of moral dilemmas were the last thing I needed, I reflected, and resolved to pretend that, if anyone asked, I hadn't seen it.