Yesterday, after thinking we were going to have to build an ark this week today we woke up to a beautiful sunny day. We were meant to be going on a walk with a friend in North Devon but as Florin is not long finished her season and the walk would have involved the dog she was mated to last week we decided that it might be best to postpone, so me and another friend went to Bigbury instead. Low tide was at 9am, which is when we arrived, fully expecting to have a good couple of hours before we had to worry about the tide coming in, wrong! We walked to one end of the beach, then started to stroll back intending to go past our start point and do the rest of the beach. About half way back we realised that the tide had actually come in far quicker than expected and although we had only been there about 90 minutes we were not going to be able to get back along the beach. So we headed back to the far end of the beach where we knew there was a public footpath, which we hoped would take us back to the coast road. Fortunately it did, so instead of our stroll along the beach we ended going up a very long and steep hill, through a golf course (bloody balls flying past us!) then through a sheep field, with 6 VERY alert dogs on very short leads, before eventually getting back to the car. At least it wasn't a boring walk, lol.
