South West Coast Way

The weather forecast earlier in the week had been for pretty bad weather on the Saturday, but it had improved as Saturday had got nearer. We had planned a shorter day in case it was bad anyway, and we'd also decided that finishing in Dartmouth for this week's walking attempt would be a good idea. We had both had enough of the strenuous walking of this trip which had lots of cliff ups and downs. The weather wasn't too bad... certainly not as bad as it HAD been forecast earlier in the week. As we were leaving the car at Blackpool Sands for today's walk we decided to go to our by now fairly regular breakfast spot... the cafe on the beach. I decided I would have a proper full english breakfast today...none of this veggie full english that I'd had before, as the vegan sausages had been so yucky. Steve went for an eggs benedict I think? View from seating at Blackpool Sands Beach cafe our breakfast spot before setting off today. Once finished we set off up the

I was woken by a really heavy shower hammering on the tent...which was exceedingly depressing as the weather forecast had said today was supposed to be one of our brighter days! I couldn't be bothered to get up if it was going to be raining yet again...so closed my eyes again and snoozed for a while. I was less tired than I had been yesterday morning but still pretty weary and really stiff too:( Steve got up and went for a shower before me. I played on my phone for a while before deciding to head up there myself. Steve returned as I was packing my rucksack with change of clothes etc. He headed back up there with me to charge his phone and web surf in the barn while I showered. I had got no pop to drink and so we decided to go into Dartmouth to get provisions before heading over to Beesands to pick up from where we left off walking last night. It was actually sunnyish...the best morning since being here probably...the tent had even begun to dry on the outside by the time we set o