Tuesday 6th August
Total: 419+m / Daily: 21m / Blue Skies / Town
Yesterday, a family was sitting on a bench in East Looe and the children were crabbing off the harbour. Crabbing consists of 4 steps:
1. Put bacon in mesh net and tie shut
2. Tie fishing line to net and drop in harbour
3. Raise net with crab grabbing onto the side of the net
4. Put crab in water bucket.
Repeat.
Total: 419+m / Daily: 21m / Blue Skies / Town
Yesterday, a family was sitting on a bench in East Looe and the children were crabbing off the harbour. Crabbing consists of 4 steps:
1. Put bacon in mesh net and tie shut
2. Tie fishing line to net and drop in harbour
3. Raise net with crab grabbing onto the side of the net
4. Put crab in water bucket.
Repeat.
Anyway, the bacon always seems to be in little red or blue plastic bags and the seaguls seemed to have worked that out too. One doomed herring gul swooped in, stole the bag and sat down with it a little way along the quay. The parents noticed but the children were too busy with their crustacean friends to witness what happened. After a few failed pecks, the herring gul stopping try to get the bacon and started eating the bag. It was actually quite disturbing to watch as it had its beak through one of the little handles, so that once it had swallowed the bag whole, the handle straps were wrapped around its beak then disappeared down its throat. I don't particularly like herring guls, but unless it manages to regurgitate the bag, that bird is not going to have a pleasant time to say the least, I couldn't help but feel sorry for it as it flew off.
I camped in a perfect spot last night and watched the sun set and rise. The sea had calmed a lot and the clouds had blown out, there was a real sense of calm. (see first few photos). Walking along this morning, the mist was literally pouring off the cliffs into the sea, quite spectatular to watch and fun to walk through as I wandered around a golf course looking for the exit path.
A big morning (15m) brought me into Plymouth for a slow afternoon and lunch in various stages along the paved walkways. I've come up with a cunning plan to get me ahead before I take a planned day off on Friday. This plan took some thinking through because I had to juggle ferry times, tide times (the Elme has no ferry), town distances, and days. More details will no doubt appear on future days if it happens but I don't want to commit myself to it just yet. Friday is still a surprisingly long way off.
One ferry across to Mount Batten now then a couple of hours 'easy' walking towards Wembury.
I camped in a perfect spot last night and watched the sun set and rise. The sea had calmed a lot and the clouds had blown out, there was a real sense of calm. (see first few photos). Walking along this morning, the mist was literally pouring off the cliffs into the sea, quite spectatular to watch and fun to walk through as I wandered around a golf course looking for the exit path.
A big morning (15m) brought me into Plymouth for a slow afternoon and lunch in various stages along the paved walkways. I've come up with a cunning plan to get me ahead before I take a planned day off on Friday. This plan took some thinking through because I had to juggle ferry times, tide times (the Elme has no ferry), town distances, and days. More details will no doubt appear on future days if it happens but I don't want to commit myself to it just yet. Friday is still a surprisingly long way off.
One ferry across to Mount Batten now then a couple of hours 'easy' walking towards Wembury.
Hey Alan, It's Heather here. What a joy it has been looking on your site!!! Thanks for all the effort as it helps us to have a bit of a sense of all that you are doing! So proud of you!! This is just amazing. Love and God bless, Heath xxxx
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