Stockland bristol to kilve Part 49

Stockland Bristol to Kilve

 Distance 16.70 Miles 

Time 6:08 minutes 

Elevation Gain 579 Feet

Total days walking 61 (Excluding The SWCP sections)

Total mileage 1403.72 (Including The SWCP sections)

After a very comfortable night in the Shepherds hut we have a late start,

 The lip

Lesley's discovered her lip is still sore as she caught it while washing & nearly passed out with the pain. It's now swollen & Pusey  so I have to walk with quizzi modo lip! 

We walk up the road and through the bird sanctuary across nice dry metal paths. The path turns to a wet muddy track & then back to dry pebbles! This section could easily be one of the strangest as the path runs out to the point & only a few meters away the return path, a few steps & a few miles could be knocked off but we don't cheat! 

The water has been high and the seaweed is high up the fields, the nice pavement  leading up to hinckley point power station is littered with pebbles thrown up with the high tide & strong winds.

 

Navigation around the power station should be easy but  poor signs & new rerouted paths make it a little challenging, the site is massive. The old paths are very wet flooded paths & slippery make it hard going.

Obviously being a power station the lighting is state or the art.

Now up on the cliff top recent cliff falls are evident, the fields are flooded leaving very soggy marshy paths for us. The scenery, geology as always is stunning. Finally turning off to Kilve our stop for the night. 

Fresh cliff fall with tractor tracks to nowhere. Now on the final few miles we plod on feeling blessed again that the rain stayed away. Turning off the path heading into the village of Kilve past the old Monastery established in 1329 now a ruin but with the daffodils dancing in the wind glowing in the sun light it is a lovely sight to finish the day off with.