Kilve to Minehead
Distance 15:11 Miles
Time 5:51 minutes
Elevation Gain 1029 Feet
Total days walking 62 (Excluding The SWCP sections)
Total mileage 1418.83 (Including The SWCP sections)
After a very comfortable night staying at the Hood Arms Kilve, I would definitely recommend a stay here but avoid Mondays as the pub is shut & no food is available but I was still able to get a pint!
Paul & Tracey were very welcoming and a good full English breakfast was served. Both Paul & Tracey were very warm, welcoming & nothing was too much trouble, the room was warm & comfortable & after a good nights rest full of lovely breakfast we set off, We have arranged to meet Linda & Steve who will walk from Minehead & meet us along the way.
We leave Kilve on our journey to Minehead adorned in waterproof attire the odd drop of rain soon becomes a steady shower, as we head out of the village back past the Monastery & up onto the cliff tops I thought the paths on the clifftop would be dry under foot where as a walk alongside a flooded river would be wet.
Wrong, the river Parrett was dry & the clifftop was definitely the wettest part of our walking.
One part of the path goes down on the beach & is not passable at high tide, this is the only morning that we have seen the sea as every other day it's been so far out, as we go down onto the beach the rain stops the tide is receding, anxiously we walk along the beach will the path be accessible?
Thankfully the tide has receded & we can leave the beach via some steep steps, at the top is a steep slope leading us into the woods & onto the cliff top.
Now down on Doniford beach with the most beautiful fossils. Brachiopods and bivalves.
Linda & Steve are messaging us,we aim to meet up at blue anchor
Coming into Watchett we come across Derek the duck!
& then down by the harbor
Just after Watchet,we have to negotiate a diversion up through a filed with a pony & a donkey, the donkey takes a fancy to me & runs up poking it's head under my arm! its a steep field & the four legged animal wins the traction pushing me up the very wet & slippery field, we make it, leaving the field via a style continuing on our way to meet up with Linda and Steve.
Still very wet under foot we negotiate around caravan parks through very muddy fields before finally dropping down to blue anchor where Linda & Steve are waiting.
After a good lunch we all walked back into Minehead. past the golf course & Butlins. bidding our farewells to Linda & Steve we walk on past where we are staying at the Quay Inn which is ok but not the greatest accommodation to the place it all started.
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