What joy to be woken to a superb sunny sunrise as my 5am alarm buzzed. I now realise most charity walkers have backup and don’t do it all themselves before (too tired after) the days’ walk!
The expected long tough shingle beach walk turned out to be a beachside track in Beesands, a headland scramble down to Torcross, and a long stroll through Slapton Ley Nature reserve, flitting between the freshwater lakeside path and the shingle beach. The lake is the largest freshwater body in the SW. On reaching Strete Gate we managed to have both coffee and enough signal to chase my husbands’ prescription.
Swapping vertiginous cliff edges for vertiginous farmland, interspersed with steep roads we walked through hilly Stete and Stoke Fleming passing across beautiful sandy Blackpool beach in the middle.
A welcome easier sultry road walk around private land took us to Little Dartmouth and a lovely headland walk and scramble down and up to the river Dart, Dartmouth Castle and Dartmouth town. Heading straight for the chemists, we collected the prescription; celebrating our success with ice cream in the park overlooking the river!
Superb views again all day; we have been blessed on the walk so far.
Official SW Coast path: 10miles
Official running total: 474miles
If you would like support our walk for Alzheimer’s the two charity just giving pages are
And
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Thank you
Paula
We stayed at the Old Newsagent apartment Dartmouth on 13 & 14 June;
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