Monday 23 May 2016

Coast Path Week 1

First week of the Coast Path walk now done!   Budleigh Salterton to Salcombe over 5 days.  Many thanks to Roland for his company.  Very pleasant walk, strenuous in places.  Bird of the week has to be the Stonechat and flower either Campion or the Early Purple Orchid.  Plenty of flower pics in the photogallery but you try taking a convincing photo of a stonechat with a 24 mm lens!  Here's one I took earlier...

Sunday 8 May 2016

Coast Path Walk

Plans have firmed up, commitment has occurred and the start is one week away! Still struggling with a number of things, like how to keep the rucksack below 15 Kg.  We could have paid for one of those namby-pamby "we take your luggage on to your evening's destination" services, but the clue is in the words I used to describe it.  Let's see how I feel after a day lugging (15+?) kilos up and down hills...