Steps.. So many steps!!
We woke in the morning after a quite quiet nights sleep. I managed a bit of a stargaze in the car park at 3am, it was very clear and you could just make out the wisp of the Milky Way above you. A gorgeous sight.
We had a small breakfast and wandered out of the car park we had slept in, topped up the machine to allow us to stay the day and wandered down the road and path towards the castle.. Interestingly we thought we’d parked a long way away from the castle but it turned out to be quite close.
Having negotiated the cliff path up to the castle, the “head” Island wasn’t open for another 10 minutes but the views from the top were breathtaking.
We, ahem, paid for our entrance (another English Heritage site) and wandered down onto the sands where the caves were.
In the first cave, we were able to clamber through, neither April nor I having the best footwear for the job we ended up sitting in a cave looking out to sea, quite a lot of iron ore in the rocks by the looks if it and the cave walls were very high. We strolled across the other end of the beach to another cave which was impassible when April mistook a hole in the dark for a rock and tumbled over hurting her knee, shoulder, neck and back.
This, however, wasn’t about to stop her from climbing the many thousands* of steps up to the “head” Island. Again beautiful views and somewhat unsafe paths, particularly if you have children.
Cliff edges R us and with a hyperactive child it’s an accident waiting to happen.. We wandered around for a while and it started to drizzle so with that and April’s injuries, we turned back to the van.
I had booked a caravan and camping club site for this evening as we had waste to empty and so we headed for Bude. Strangely we felt a bit “observed” on this site, almost as if others were looking down their noses at us not a pleasant experience to be honest., Toby loved the playroom though, they had a pool table and a table tennis table. He found a few friends and played into the night. After a quick tea, we decided to get some sleep..
*tens! many tens but it was a long way..
