This is my first proper beach walk of the year! I really enjoy walking on the sand, and I know we walked some of the pier to pier walk on the beach, but this was the whole thing!
I began at back beach at Teignmouth, they're doing some work on the wall by the pub but it's still possible to walk along by the boats if you're careful of the mooring ropes and the tide is going out. The view across to Shaldon and up the estuary to the moors is superb, and on a clear sunny day like today it can't be beaten. I continued past the ferry and the expensive beach huts out to the mouth of the estuary. The tide was roaring out, the river almost looked alive the current was so strong. I went right to the edge of the sand spit and then doubled back along the front beach. The tide has turned enough for me to walk along the sand below the car park - the first footprints there! - I had to dodge the waves at the slipway a little further round but didn't get my feet wet! Then it was straight along to the pier. Family groups were busy making sandcastles, dogs were being walked. It was busy and yet quiet - I really noticed the absence of traffic noise, the general peacefulness, and I really appreciated it.
I got as near to East Cliff as I could along the sands and then had to come up onto the prom to walk from the Lido to the start of the sea wall. The East Cliff cafe was doing a good trade and it seems a very warm spot, I was quite tempted to have a bacon butty but I resisted.
And so, back to Teignmouth town and its narrow little nooks and crannies and its out-of-season charm.
I have to report a second walk too! My brother and I walked in the National Trust woodlands at Bradley in the afternoon remarking how the course of the river has altered in the last 40/50 years and how many more people visit now. We even made it up to Devils Pit for a look round - it's been repackaged at Puritans Pit and has a plaque to prove it.
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