Total: 54m / ~19m / Sunny / Sunseakers:1000+
The first thing I did today (after sitting up) was to take 2 painkillers. The walk into Ilfracombe wasn't too bad and I feel my pole technique is improving although I'm all over the place going downhill. I was thinking about painkillers and then onto ice as a painkiller. The only reason ice is applied is to numb pain, this can then trick the body into producing less fluid as it thinks the problem is going away, thereby reducing swelling. All of this information comes off the side of my new tubegrip knee support, which (rather worryingly) is white. White is a bad idea for long walks for rather obvious reasons, perhaps it can become my clothes washing indicator.
A fantastic walk around Lee Bay, Bull Point and Morte Point took me past inaccessible sandy coves, a stunning lighthouse with converted holidays cottages, rocky outcrops and undulating hills (of which these ones did slightly more undulating than I was expecting). My first sight of Woolacombe was thousands of sunseakers on the vast sandy beach and the little town perched on the edge. It was slightly later than I had hoped and I found welcome shade at the Sea Breeze Ice Cream and Coffee Shop.
Lunch was accompanied by a show as a lady from Birmingham became more and more irate with her broken down car. One man suggested that it 'sounds like a fault with the petrol pump,' how can you tell? I have no idea whether he was qualified to make that comment, all I know is that it sounds like it won't start!
Across Woolacombe beach I climbed up around the headland and was able to see right the way across the next huge bay (with Barnstaple in the middle) all the way to Hartland, where where I will hopefully be spending Monday night in the YHA.
The Saunton Hotel, starting at £110 per room per night was a little out of my price range, so a pizza beside the beach and sleeping in my tent will do nicely!
If you look carefully at the rock photo you will see two people. One abseiled down the rope attached coiled in his bag and the other clipped in and came down the same rope.
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