This leg takes us over the harder edge of the oldest chalk and steeply down onto some softer ancient mud as we arrive in Cambridge where we finish our journey, but the water and life flows on, under the bridges filtering through the flat wetlands around the Isle of Ely, once are larger town than Cambridge nourished by the ducks and eels that lived around it and where passed lives dropped to the dark depths of its marshy black fens trapped as carbon maybe on its way to become coal.
Now we drop over the sharp end of the old hard chalk brim and drop steeply down to reach the even more ancient mud underneath it before we arrive at Cambridge on the edge of the newborn earth settling amongst the reedbeds of the few young flat, undisturbed and still living fens
Milestones - Leg 5
Soar over us mile by mile as we head onwards, by selecting each image
