Day 8. Sat 29th Mar
Another beautiful sunny morning, cold but with a light wind. Lyme Regis was only thinking of waking up as I walked through the town so I kept my breakfast thoughts on hold.
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| Lyme Regis in the morning sunshine |
The Path has some rather strange diversions that take you in loops off the road only to return after a short distance. It would have been easier to stay on the road.
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| Strange sculpture near the Golf Course |
Charmouth provided breakfast at the Bakery before climbing up the road to Stonebarrow Hill where the path resumed rolling over the cliff tops before climbing to the days highpoint at Golden Cap, nearly 200 meters high with associated amazing views.
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| Vie from Golden Cap |
The wind was increasing and there were a number of paragliders utilising the updrafts from the cliffs to do some fancy flying.
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| Gliding |
The path was again diverted from the cliff edge to go through the Bridport and West Dorset Golf Club which was an interesting exercise in missile defense on a busy Saturday morning.
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| Golfing |
The hills were getting lower and lower until after Hive I ended up walking on the pea gravel that, while not yet Chesil Beach, is of that start of that huge sweep of gravel.
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| Gravel |
Low shoes are not the ideal footwear for loose gravel and I admired the big boots of the hundreds of fishermen who were in their little shelters dotted along the beach in the now increasingly strong cold wind, patiently watching their rods.
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| Fishing |
I was very glad to get off the beach and onto a track just behind the gravel bank which took me up to the village of Abbotsbury and a delightful ancient Inn
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| Ilchester Arms |
18.5 miles walked 900 meters ascent.
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