South West Coastal Path 2015 Day 31

Thursday 24^th September 2015

I was away at 8:50.

2 hours after starting out I arrived at the Erme estuary (so much for a 3-hour walk).  The tide was coming in, but there were still stretches of sand for most of the way across.  I took off my boots and waded into the river flow, testing to see how deep it got.  It only came to my knees!  I wandered over without a problem.  It was a great sense of accomplishment and saved me £30-odd in a taxi fare.
 

The sense of euphoria lasted about an hour and a half until I encountered some walkers going in the other direction that informed me the ferry I needed to catch the next morning had ceased operations for the season.  It was supposed to operate until month’s end.
 

I got to Bigbury-on-Sea before 1, so continued to see where the ferry crossing should be, just to be sure.  There was no boat going back and forth.

Back to Bigbury-on-Sea to sit by the ocean for a couple of hours, then, as there was nowhere suitable to eat here, I walked back along the coastal path to Challaborough (yep, backtracking) to buy fish ‘n’ chips.

Day 32