Distance: 15km (9.3 miles) Total Distance: 998 miles
We travelled down from Coventry the previous evening. It was not too bad a journey, only getting held up once near Avonmouth for fifteen minutes. We stayed at the Fostell campsite near Hartland – not a flat pitch to be seen. We ate a burger in Bideford in case we missed the pub – but in the end we still had time to put the tent up and go to the pub.
I left the bike in Hartland and then we drove down to Hartland Quay and parked the car there – the thinking being that if we were to get a lift back it would probably just be as far as Hartland. We then started walking!
The whole day was full of steep climbs and descents. The start of the day was pretty – especially the waterfall at Speck’s Mill Mouth. Some of the cliff tops at Wellcomb Mouth were 400 ft tall. On some stretches of the walk we saw quite a few people, on others not many at all. There were quite a number around Hawkers Hut, a place where a vicar used to write poetry in a small hut overlooking the sea. In the later part of the walk the radar dishes of the ‘signals’ spoilt the view.
We stopped in Duckpool, walked up to the main road at Coombe, and we were deciding what to do when a car stopped and offered us a lift! – South Africans we think. They took us all the way to Hartland – out of their way – great! Meg went back to the tent and I cycled down to collect the car. We ate in the bar at the campsite that was also a hotel – not bad!
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