Weather: Cold and Fine.
Distance:
35 km (21.7 miles) Total Distance: 3324 miles
A
deceivingly long walk today around Walney Island. I parked the car on the mainland and walked
over the bridge and turned right.
The
first part was along seafront. The path
then changed character by going over scrub land near a disused airfield and
then onto sand dunes, The wind certainly
picked up as I rounded the point on the northern tip which felt very remote as
I lost sight of the mainland.
I had good
views before that of Lowsey Point which I passed yesterday. At Earnse Point there were a few people
around walking dogs but not many. I
stopped for a break.
From then on it was
a long haul all the way down to the South of the island. At the nature reserve I was forced to cut
inland and through the car park and then around the paths of the reserve come
quarry. An hour later I was retracing my
steps. Most of the rest of the walk was
along the road which was a bit annoying as there were quite a lot of lorries
from the quarry using it.
Back
at the hostel that night there were a young couple who were asking about hill
walking but had never done any. I always
wondered whether they ever got up a hill.
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