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South West Coast Path walk

I parked in the same place I did on Saturday and walked north(ish) towards Bude – taking as many opportunities as possible to make images.

The light was particularly good as the weather was overcast – so no hard shadows but it did mean the distance was a bit hazy.

First order is the day was find somewhere for breakfast with a great view. With this is mind I found an out of the way drop in the cliff down to a spot – out of the wind but where the main sound was the crash of the waves.

Cliff top spot
This hollow kept me out of the wind
Breakfast on the cliffs
Cliff top breakfast stop
Backpacking food for the day
Food for the day

The plastic box is an up-cycled cake box. Breakfast was home baked wholemeal bread with cheese spread and homemade plum jam. Of course I brewed fresh coffee.

The biscuits (Oreo’s and breakfast biscuits), apple and fried rice is for lunch or snacks. In the box is also milk, curtesy of the hotel, a vegetable stock cube and soy sauce.

South West Coast Path
Rick Strata
Strata
South West Coast Path
Waves

On the way out

South West Coast Path
South West Coast Path
Rick strata
Strata

Lunch is here.

These sheep came to see what I was doing whilst I was eating
South West Coast Path

The Storm Tower

The Storm Tower Bude
The Storm Tower Bude
The Storm Tower
The Storm Tower Bude
The Storm Tower Bude

Bude

South West Coast Path Bude
South West Coast Path Bude
South West Coast Path Bude

On the way back

South West Coast Path
GCHQ listening post
GCHQ listening post in the distance
Lower Longbeak​ Cornwall
Lower Longbeak
Black and white misty coast

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Walking today

The route I took today was out near Kirkby Green.

Lincolnshire sky
Lincolnshire sky
Hiking lunch
Hiking lunch

I found a spot out of the wind – after the rain stopped – for lunch. Tinned mushroom soup, buttered sourdough bread and coffee. The smoke was because I used some hexamine solid fuel tablets to heat the soup and water, but once I used them I remembered why they we still in my fuel box several years after I had bought them.

Compared to the Fire Dragon gel fuel the hexamine tablets gave off pungent fumes and left a sooty residue on the mugs and stove. OK for a standby, lasts forever, fuel but not for everyday use anymore. The British Army used it for years and the first outdoors stove I bought when I was at school, from the military surplus department in Millers of Grays, was an army folding cooker which included eight large blocks of hexamine.

Hiking haversack load out​
Hiking haversack load – including a lightweight poncho
Finnish Haversack
Finnish Haversack
Lincolnshire sky
Lincolnshire skies
Lone tree in the style of Ansel Adams
Lone tree in the style of Ansel Adams

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More photos from my recent trip to Wales

Near Machynlleth

Near Machynlleth
Near Machynlleth
Near Machynlleth

A beach near Aberdovey

beach near Aberdovey
beach near Aberdovey
beach near Aberdovey

Wales Coastal Path – Plas Talgarth

Plas Talgarth​
Plas Talgarth
Wales Coastal Path
Fungi
River Dovey​r
River Dovey
Wales Coast Path
Lunch

Rain and fog

River Dovey​
River Dovey
Bushcraft haversack, pocket wood stove, titanium canteen and canteen mug
Titanium canteen mug
River Dovey​
River Dovey
Farmland
Plas Talgarth
Sheep grazing

Today’s food – spam

Fried Spam breakfast
Fried Spam breakfast – with coffee and orange juice
Indonesian noodles​
Indonesian noodles with spam, prawns and fried egg

Aberdovey

Aberdovey
Aberdovey
Aberdovey

Welsh Coast

Glasdir

Glasdir
Glasdir Stone Bridge
Morning coffee​ lightweight coffee filter
Morning coffee
Glasdir
Glasdir
Glasdir
Glasdir

Glasdir Copper Works

Glasdir Copper Works
Glasdir Copper Works

Back to Aberdovey beach

Sand dunes
Aberdovey beach
Foot steps in the sand Aberdovey beach
Aberdovey beach
Aberdovey beach
Aberdovey beach
Sand dunes Aberdovey beach
Aberdovey beach

Plas Talgarth

The view from the flat - River Dovey​
The view from the flat – River Dovey
Plas Talgarth
Spider Web and rain drops Plas Talgarth

Furnace

Restored iron works​
Restored iron works
Lunch
Lunch

Furnace Falls

Furnace Falls
Furnace Falls
Furnace Falls
Furnace Falls

Machynlleth Hills

Machynlleth Hills
Machynlleth Hills
Machynlleth Hills

On the way home

Craig y Llam
Craig y Llam
Tal-y-llyn Lake
Tal-y-llyn Lake

Near Llangollen

Near Llangollen
Near Llangollen
Near Llangollen

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Furnace

Furnace is a village named after the industrial plant that is there – disused now but restored. The iron furnace was built in the village on the banks of the river in about 1755 – and processed ore bought there from Cumbria by ship.

The restored Furnace iron works​
The restored iron works

Furnace Falls

Furnace Falls
Furnace Falls

Riverside walk

There weather forecast was poor so I followed a path out of the village along the river for a short walk and lunch.

River walk
Welsh fields
Backpacking lunch titanium gear
Bushcraft gear - leather gloves, titanium canteen with nesting mug - using a mini gas stove

I used the gas stove today as the wind was so strong that the alcohol stove could not deliver enough heat the boil water for Indian spiced Tea.

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