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Thursday 30 May 2013

Bude to Land's End Coastalpath-arooing - Day 1

Bude to Tintagel

So its 9:30 am on Monday 20th May and me, H and H are in Bude on the north Cornish coast. We're back-packed up to the gunnels and ready to commence our 7 day "run" to Land's End, some 140 miles away to the south west. 

The thing about coastal path running when you're also carrying huge backpacks (Hester's pack weighed in at 9 kilos, I'm guessing mine was 10 kilos and even Harry's panniers were fully loaded) is that running is not especially easy to do. And particularly so on this stretch of coast line - our first day's destination was Tintagel with 22 miles of really uppy downy coastline (6,000 feet's worth of uppy-downyness in fact) to get through! So although we mainly ran the flat stretches and the not too lumpy down hill stretches, the uphills tended to be yomped/staggered.

Uppy downy first days route profiles ->

Top = Bude to Crackington Haven and bottom = Crackington Haven to Tintagel

So with overcast skies and a 'bit' of a wind blowing, off we jolly well went.....


The first of many, many beautiful sandy beaches between Bude and Land's End - this time Widemouth Bay

Harry with important stick chewing to do

Stunted oak woodland

Coastalpath-aroos ahoy!

Me with still bright shiny new fell shoes

They still don't know how to do dry stone walls properly in Cornwall

Downy then uppy!

Lichen

Bluebells and blue seas

Hester cliff hole posing

Rocky Vale - so called because.....

The small and light backpack made for some easy running....

We eventually 'breezed' into Tintagel in the early evening backed by a fair to middling gale force wind, found a handy campsite on a wind battered headland (the campsite was actually called the Headland), most importantly found a wind sheltered pub in town for supper and beer before retiring to our little two person (and a sticky legged dog) tent for a very wind flappy night's sleep.

Day 2 - Tintagel to Polzeath

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