Weather: OK - couple of spots of rain.
Distance: 12.5 km (7.8 miles) Total Distance: 1286 miles
I was joined on this stage of the walk by a friend of mine from college days, Richard. This was one of few stages of the walk where I'd actually had company. Richard is a far more accomplished walker than me and regularly takes part in the Long Distance Walkers Association (LDWA) 100 mile walk each spring. He is also one of the first to have ‘doubled up’ on the annual Across Wales walk. In the Across Wales Walk, walkers do just that, walk across Wales at its narrowest point, starting in Shropshire and finishing in Aberystwyth. Richard and a few others found this a little tame after a while and began walking in Aberystwyth, joining the main party of walkers in Shropshire at the official starting point, before heading back to Aberystwyth again. As you can tell, today will be a walk in the park for Richard. I must say that it was nice to have the company but there is certainly less time to concentrate on the surroundings. I'm able to recall less fine detail of this walk than some of the others this week.
The walk was a gentle affair with some nice narrow cliff-top paths where we were forced to walk single file. We stopped at the cafe for a cup of tea near Caerhays Castle, which was just visible inland, before getting back to the cliffs again. Dodman Point was a flat and not too interesting peninsular. The best views of the day were actually on the way towards Gorren Haven overlooking the beach at Vault Beach. The path passed high above the sea at this point.
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| Vault Beach (Photo: Malcolm Etherington, Geograph) |
We walked into Gorran Haven which was very busy because it was Festival Day. We did not hang around too long but travelled back to Portloe to collect my car and revisit the cafe Margaret and I visited the previous day.
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