Day Eight - Exmansworthy to Sandhill Cliff 14.4km (8.9 miles).
Time on route 4:20hrs, walking time 3:55hrs.
Saturday 16 August 2014
Somehow I strained my back during my last walk on 14 June, and it has taken 8 weeks plus physio to get me fit for long distant walking again. So yesterday I took it slow and steady and only walked 14km, but it was the right thing to do.
Picking up at Exmansworthy my first find was this wonderful trig. I've never seen on with a set of stairs before. How absolutely lovely.
The walk across to Hartland Point was pretty flat which was a good warm up. A constant reference point is the radar station. with its mushroom dome.
Just past the radar station is a car park with a coffee shack that is open during the summer. It would have been churlish to ignore it. Happiness is coffee in the sun with a map. And a mushroom.
Hartland Point Lighthouse was just around the corner: shame you can no longer visit it or even get remotely close.
Glorious views with Lundy as a backdrop.
After Hartland Point the route returned to the usual ups and downs of the coast path. I met Roger for coffee at Hartland Quay and then pushed on south. The geology of this part of Devon is outstanding.
Peeping through to Stoke Church.
On the cow front I can report that I'm getting a little braver and can face a field of cows without too much quivering on my part. I'm still not comfortable with bullocks who scare me. And I would never even entertain this.
Time on route 4:20hrs, walking time 3:55hrs.
Saturday 16 August 2014
Somehow I strained my back during my last walk on 14 June, and it has taken 8 weeks plus physio to get me fit for long distant walking again. So yesterday I took it slow and steady and only walked 14km, but it was the right thing to do.
Picking up at Exmansworthy my first find was this wonderful trig. I've never seen on with a set of stairs before. How absolutely lovely.
The walk across to Hartland Point was pretty flat which was a good warm up. A constant reference point is the radar station. with its mushroom dome.
Just past the radar station is a car park with a coffee shack that is open during the summer. It would have been churlish to ignore it. Happiness is coffee in the sun with a map. And a mushroom.
Hartland Point Lighthouse was just around the corner: shame you can no longer visit it or even get remotely close.
Glorious views with Lundy as a backdrop.
After Hartland Point the route returned to the usual ups and downs of the coast path. I met Roger for coffee at Hartland Quay and then pushed on south. The geology of this part of Devon is outstanding.
Peeping through to Stoke Church.
On the cow front I can report that I'm getting a little braver and can face a field of cows without too much quivering on my part. I'm still not comfortable with bullocks who scare me. And I would never even entertain this.
