Sea Mist.

With the sun shining brightly and a whole free day ahead of me I decided to go for a walk along the cliffs to Wallog. I wanted to see if I could find some rock features there that I had read about.

Having made it up the first climb and silently noting that I had done it without stopping, I was chatting to a couple of holiday makers up at the War Memorial when suddenly I noticed the sea mist rolling in up over the cliff and across the fields.

 

Undeterred I carried on, sometimes I was in the sun and at others I was walking through the mist. Luckily the path is very clear and there was no chance of missing my way and going off the cliffs.

Looking back at the War Memorial.

Eventually I reached Wallog where I went down onto the beach to search for cone-in-cone structures. Imagine a box of ice-cream cones stacked inside each other but tiny and made of rock. Each circle in the stones I found was the base of a stack of cones. I kept the two smallest examples, a heart stone and a piece of sparkly quartz (who doesn't love sparkle?) and left the rest.

From this beach there is a moraine spit of shingle stretching out into the bay. It was formed by the glaciers that once covered this area but of course has fuelled the stories of a drowned civilisation. Though of course the sea level was much lower back in pre-history so that it may have been possible to walk right across to Ireland. I thought about walking out onto the spit but was deterred by the thought of the long return journey. (Probably an hour and half's walking each way - I don't wear a watch so that's just a guess.)

On the return journey the mist had retreated but was thicker over the sea so that it looked as if I was walking above the clouds. Note the steep hill climb, of which there were many, with the path running along the outside of the fence.

There are a few almost level sections of the route but it's mainly very steep steps or slopes. A good workout for my knees and no need to do the evening set of squats. I had a sit down on the beach with my coffee but then saved some coffee to drink while I had a break on the return journey.

Strangely enough there was a separate cloud hanging around the War Memorial.

Needless to say once I got home I had a rest sitting out on the terrace with a large mug of tea.