Exploring the South Hams

Monday 

We had intended to walk the coast path but unfortunately we took a path that led us onto the  beach and could only be used at low tide. It was high tide!!
A change of plan was in play and we spent a few hours sat on the beach listening to the gentle sound of the waves. 

Tuesday

All in all we found it a friendly site, especially our neighbours that we named the 'puds' 
for no other reason than that they were from Yorkshire. They had been coming to the site for years (and many of the other caravaners had too) and were very informative about the area and trails. Today, we were going to follow one of their trails across a few fields to Beesands and than onto Hallsands. Ant had checked out the weather forecast, and were prepared for rain later that day. 

We set off and followed the instructions from memory, we were doing fine until we spotted a footpath that we weren't sure was going in the right direction, fortunately a local arrived from nowhere and pointed in the right direction. From then on we were on a roll and found ourselves down on Beesands Beach. 

The sea had changed dramatically from yesterday, the waves were crashing down on the shingle. A storm was looming, but we were confident we could outwit the storm and walk on to Hallsands and return to Beesands before the rain. If we had taken the coastal path back to Beesands we probably would have, but we took the inland 1 mile track back and found that some of the path was overgrown consequently ( tut tut National Trust) we had to back track onto another path which probably turned into a 2 mile walk back!!  It started to rain up on the headland but we carried on.....

At Beesands, we took refuge under a parasol for a while and then decided to have lunch at the Cricket Inn. When we stepped inside, we realised many others had the same idea....
We were shown to the last available table and had a very good meal that reflected in the price.....

We made a unanimous decision to walk the coast path back to Torcross. Thinking the storm had passed but it was yet to come....

We had several loud crashes of thunder overhead and lightening strikes, reminded me of our recent South Downs walk!!!