Day 35 - Tuesday 13 June 2017
Plymouth to Noss Mayo (11 miles)
Awoke to a glorious day of sunshine with very little breeze. Breakfast was a strange affair - no Cereals or Juice out on the table instead both were delivered to you if you asked for them - weird. Exactly the same time we left the B&B who should walk out of the next door B&B but Chris - amazing coincidence. We had not seen him for a while therefore before setting off we caught up as to what we had all been up to since then. He explained he had broken his watch and had gone into Plymouth late yesterday afternoon to seek a replacement - all he could find was a plastic clock!
Before heading to Mayflower Steps to catch the ferry to Mount Batten, as it was a glorious day we quickly nipped up to take some photographs on The Hoe. Chris was already on the ferry when we arrived at the Barbican for the 10 minute journey across to Mount Batten and we agreed to walk together as far as Wembury as Chris was hoping to cross the Yealm and camp as near as he could to the Erme crossing. At Dunstone Point we said hello to Sid, a gorgeous Doppleganger of Fudge's. There now began a glorious stretch of coastline via Jennycliff, Staddon & Heybrook Bay - just superb walking.
Stopped for lunch at The Old Mill Cafe near Wembury and met up with our good friends Si, Jennie and their Springer Barney - Chris joined us for a pastie lunch before he carried on to the Yealm crossing and on to the Erme to catch the low tide tomorrow morning. Said our goodbyes to Si & Jennie and made our way to Warren Point Slipway and journeys end for the day although we still had to walk up to Wembury to catch the bus back to Plymouth.
Just as we were leaving the slipway a voice called us from below - it was the Ferryman. He asked us if we had called the Ferry - we informed him we had only just arrived and therefore we couldn't have and in any case we were not crossing the Yealm so why would we? This was lost on him. He insisted we had summoned the Ferry and then began to give us a bit of a bollocking - maybe he was a mate of the sad sack who drove the Polruan Ferry?
Having broken off diplomatic relations with yet another Ferryman we walked up into Wembury to catch the bus back to Plymouth. Having had lunch out we spoiled ourselves with some M&S nibbles before grabbing an early night. This was a stunning day on the path.
Before heading to Mayflower Steps to catch the ferry to Mount Batten, as it was a glorious day we quickly nipped up to take some photographs on The Hoe. Chris was already on the ferry when we arrived at the Barbican for the 10 minute journey across to Mount Batten and we agreed to walk together as far as Wembury as Chris was hoping to cross the Yealm and camp as near as he could to the Erme crossing. At Dunstone Point we said hello to Sid, a gorgeous Doppleganger of Fudge's. There now began a glorious stretch of coastline via Jennycliff, Staddon & Heybrook Bay - just superb walking.
Stopped for lunch at The Old Mill Cafe near Wembury and met up with our good friends Si, Jennie and their Springer Barney - Chris joined us for a pastie lunch before he carried on to the Yealm crossing and on to the Erme to catch the low tide tomorrow morning. Said our goodbyes to Si & Jennie and made our way to Warren Point Slipway and journeys end for the day although we still had to walk up to Wembury to catch the bus back to Plymouth.
Just as we were leaving the slipway a voice called us from below - it was the Ferryman. He asked us if we had called the Ferry - we informed him we had only just arrived and therefore we couldn't have and in any case we were not crossing the Yealm so why would we? This was lost on him. He insisted we had summoned the Ferry and then began to give us a bit of a bollocking - maybe he was a mate of the sad sack who drove the Polruan Ferry?
Having broken off diplomatic relations with yet another Ferryman we walked up into Wembury to catch the bus back to Plymouth. Having had lunch out we spoiled ourselves with some M&S nibbles before grabbing an early night. This was a stunning day on the path.
Chris with his brand new "watch"
The National Armada Memorial on Plymouth Hoe which commemorates the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588
The Cenotaph War Memorial on Plymouth Hoe
The Sir Francis Drake Memorial
Smeatons Tower on Plymouth Hoe
A memorial to the celebrated civil engineer John Smeaton, designer of the third and most notable Eddystone Lighthouse
A memorial to the celebrated civil engineer John Smeaton, designer of the third and most notable Eddystone Lighthouse
A Plymouth Hoe panorama
Tinside Pool is a unique Art Deco lido on Plymouth Hoe built in 1935. I remember swimming in the lido when on holiday here in the long hot summer of 1976
The Leviathan Statue on the Barbican in Plymouth. Known locally as "the Prawn on the Barbie".
Another bit of sea time for our ex Navy legs - the ferry which would take us over to Mountbatten
Angie & Chris ready to set sail
With Chris leaving Mountbatten
The South West Coast Path marker next to the Mountbatten Breakwater
Sid
Not far to go now!!
Enough said
Plymouth Breakwater
Fort Bovisand - originally built to defend the entrance to Plymouth, it was completed in 1869. It was latterly a Diving Centre until this closed in 2008.
It now looks as though the site will be turned into luxury apartments
It now looks as though the site will be turned into luxury apartments
Looking to Heybrook Bay
The Type 23 Frigate HMS Sutherland
Great Mew Stone
The Old Mill Cafe near Wembury
With Simon & Barney at The Old Mill
The final part of todays walk ending at the Noss Mayo Ferry - Gara Point and The Warren are ahead which we would walk over tomorrow
A Yealm panorama
The River Yealm with Newton Ferrers to the left
Looking over the Yealm to the Noss Mayo side of the river
Going no further than the slipway today Fudge - end of the road
Overnight Accommodation
2 nights in the Four Seasons, Plymouth
2 nights in the Four Seasons, Plymouth
Day 35 Data
Mileage
Cumulative Mileage
Time
Cumulative Time
Total Ascent
Cumulative Ascent
Cumulative Mileage
Time
Cumulative Time
Total Ascent
Cumulative Ascent
11 miles
450 miles
6 hrs 10 min
221 hrs 30 mins
2122 ft
105236 ft
450 miles
6 hrs 10 min
221 hrs 30 mins
2122 ft
105236 ft