Weather: Cold and Fine and
windy.
Distance:
20 km (12.4 miles) Total Distance: 3337 miles
I parked near the bridge to Walney Island and headed south
past the Barrow dockyards and then into the residential area of Barrow Island and lots of brick terraced houses presumably built for the workers of the
docks. The area was in pretty reasonable
condition.
A mile or so on the main road
and then a path cut south over waste land and then on the outside of a power
station. The terrain gradually improved
and soon I was able to cut down onto the beach.
By the time I was at the neck of Roa Island the wind was high and the
walk out to Roa Island was just hard work rather than pleasant. I was hungry by now and called into the coffee
shop on the island which proved to be an excellent decision, one of the best I
have come across on the whole coastal walk.
The afternoon walk was quite pleasant
partly along the road past Rampside lighthouse and later along paths and beach
at times. I didn’t seem to be feeling the cold too much as I was well wrapped
up but by the time I left the beach at Baycliff it was so cold that the sea was
beginning to freeze on the foreshore. I
stopped at Baycliff and walked up the road and caught a bus back to Barrow at
the Fisherman’s Arms. I got talking to
an art student on her way to college in Barrow.
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