Day 08e

Rain coming, again!

Still sunny over there.

Not here though! (or was it just windy and cold?)

View from somewhere near the top.

Down I go into the valley.

Day 08d

Do they look mad or curious...?

The fence says 'I don't care' but I would have if I hadn't changed fields!

Heading up onto the top of the moor...

with big wide views

And a solitary sheep!

Day 08c

Came from there.

So this lot followed me along the road for quite a long way. I changed fields to avoid them and had to walk about half a mile out of my way as a result, but they sniffed me out when I came along the road.

Day 08b

If you look really carefully, you'll see that behind that car in the distance, there's a dog. The aged guy driving was going about 5mph and forcing his dog to run behind! Not sure what to think bout that...

Windy and wet.... Meh!

Follow that river...

This has been here for a while. I noticed another box elsewhere that looked like part of the landscape, but that';s all it was. There was nothing it it! Look well because in  decade, these guys won't exist.

Day 08a

Stayed here. It was old fashioned and nice!

What kind of fuel station is that?

Going up there...

Day 08 - Withypool to Lynmouth - 28 km

Finally a day with some better weather and what a difference it made. Everything lit up with colour and while my waterproofs were on at times and off at others, by and large it was lovely. It was a day mostly spent in the wilder parts of Exemoor too, so for a change, the terrain was more interesting to walk through. I detoured round a field full of bullocks having already had enough of that kind of thing. You can see the pictures of them here. And they were more than a bit interested in following along with me! I think they were just curious but was glad they were on the other side of the fence. 

The final couple of miles into Lynmouth are extremely up and down but the views were lovely. And made more special by the anticipation of actually finishing once the sea had come into view from the top of the moor. So here's the final set of pictures to finish off this walk.

Plymouth to Lynmouth: Job done!

Day 07c

It was raining! Ok!

Various pictures of the Tar Steps. these apparently got washed away last year during a flood and the army had to replace them. Not sure why the army had to do that but they did. Now there is a 'tree catcher' upstream. There's some photos later. That should fix it. No more wash-away step thingys. Apparently they are all numbered now on the undersized so if they do get dislodged they can put them back together easier. Cheats!

And it was still raining! In an odd way it was nice. The little circles each raindrop made on the river were very pretty. And you tend to cocoon a bit inside the waterproof too which is cozy. But hell! It was still pissing down!

If the photos are a bit blurry, it's probably because they were taken through a plastic bag designed to keep my expensive phone dry. It worked too, but the phone was next to useless when it was inside it! Still we all live to fight a high-tech-nother day.