BITE SIZED CHUNKS..
The South West Coast Path is one of the glories of the country. 630 miles long from Minehead in Somerset around to Poole in Dorset. Over the years, we have walked various sections of the path - North Devon, Cornwall and last week we renewed our love affair with some of the South Devon area. What we won`t achieve is to walk the whole 630 miles, prefering instead to walk selected bite sized chunks which we think we and Barney might be able to manage.
South Devon's coastline is one of spectacular contrasts. Wave-battered sandstone cliffs and rugged headlands that have claimed countless shipwrecks, give way to tranquil wooded estuaries and inland to lush, rolling farmland with patchwork fields and we pretty much walked the section from Wembury along to the Erme estuary, along with bits around Ringmore, Bigbury Bay and Bolt Tail. Apart from one day, the weather was glorious and, yes, it was possible to see the Eddystone Lighthouse 13 miles out to sea off Wembury Bay.
But back to earth with a bang today - shopping, mowing, car cleaning and getting back to the old routine before we set off again in five weeks time to explore some more of the South Cornwall section around Portscatho and the Roseland. We`ll do a few more of our bite sized chunks of this spectacular long distance path and perhaps wish we had been able to tackle its whole distance before the twin threats of anno domini and avoirdupois began to set in.
I`ve posted a few of the photos I took on Flickr - click on the thumbnails on the right to see them, along with a few more I`ll post in the next few days.
South Devon's coastline is one of spectacular contrasts. Wave-battered sandstone cliffs and rugged headlands that have claimed countless shipwrecks, give way to tranquil wooded estuaries and inland to lush, rolling farmland with patchwork fields and we pretty much walked the section from Wembury along to the Erme estuary, along with bits around Ringmore, Bigbury Bay and Bolt Tail. Apart from one day, the weather was glorious and, yes, it was possible to see the Eddystone Lighthouse 13 miles out to sea off Wembury Bay.
But back to earth with a bang today - shopping, mowing, car cleaning and getting back to the old routine before we set off again in five weeks time to explore some more of the South Cornwall section around Portscatho and the Roseland. We`ll do a few more of our bite sized chunks of this spectacular long distance path and perhaps wish we had been able to tackle its whole distance before the twin threats of anno domini and avoirdupois began to set in.
I`ve posted a few of the photos I took on Flickr - click on the thumbnails on the right to see them, along with a few more I`ll post in the next few days.
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