Walking from Bonehill to Hound Tor

It was another glorious day so we headed upto Bonehill and walked out towards Honey Bag Tour

The view while eating lunch

Stopping for a spot of lunch

We then dropped down to the road and walked up to another footpath which would have been a great mountain biking track

Stopping for a picture

The view from Hound Tor

We stopped at Hound Tor before walking back to the car to admire this amazing view

Which way to the beach?

Walking at Widecombe

As it was such a lovely day today, we had to get out of the house, so we headed out to Widecombe. We walked north onto the moorland behind and went for a very enjoyable 8 mile walk.

Just one of the lovely views

 We headed out over the moors, with views of Hound Tor, Hay Tor and many others we could see for miles.

We strolled back along the country lanes

Me possing for a quick picture

Andy

 

Part way through our we were suprised to find a field of Alpaca

Before we made it back to the car, we stopped of at the Old Inn for a quick cider shandy. 

Walking Overnighter at Princetown

After work me and Andy had a spot of dinner and then headed up to Princetown, as we were there we popped into the Plume of Feathers for a quick drink and then headed out towards Swell Tor Quarry where we were planning on setting up camp for the night. We managed to find a flat spot, set up the tarp and then the thermarests underneath.

Andy testing out our beds

We managed to sleep pretty well, though we did get woken up in the early hours of the morning by a rave a few miles away.

A rather dilapidated old building

Although the weather wasn't the most inspiring, we still had an explore. We found the wreck of an old building that looked pretty cool and then we found some small lakes in a unused quarry.



The lake in the disused quarry


It was a great place to explore, just a shame the weather wasn't a little nicer



Pixie boy Andy

Weather Tree

 

The old tramway

We wondered round for a few hours before having to head back to the car and head home. Will definitly come here again as we have further that we want to walk.

Moo Moo

Bivying out on Dartmoor

Me and Andy decided that we were gonna test out our new bivy bags, so we got our housemate Sarah to kindly drive us up to Venford Reservoir, we then walked from the car park up towards a rocky out crop, found a sheltered spot from the wind then set up out mats, sleeping bags and bivy bags.

We played a couple of rounds of cards while we waited for the sun to go down, then laid back and whats the stars come out, it was very peaceful and a totally clear sky so we could see all the stars coming out

I woke up feeling a little damp, where the condensation on the inside of my bivy bag had started to come through my sleeping bag, I'd also managed to wake myself up alot during the night by having to check that there were no animals wondering round.

When we got up and packed our stuff up i had a quick wonder to stretch my legs out and saw a dear wondering around about 20 feet from me



When had a spot of breakie and started on our walk home, we headed down a very steep hill then walked down beside the River Dart (on river right) it was a lovely peaceful walk, because it was so early there wasn't anyone around until we got to Newbridge. Then then headed through the country park and back home ready for lunch 

Walking weekend in Lynton

It was my 26th birthday on Friday. So we went out for a few drinks at the Impy in Exeter, i had a really great night and people were kindly (i think kindly is the right word) buying me drinks.

On Saturday i got up feeling a little delicate and Andy kindly made me some breakfast, i have now learnt that packing while hung over even just for the weekend, isn't a very sensible idea. After spending the morning faffing around, we left and drove up to Lynton.

We got to Lynton parked up and went for a walk along the coast, we first started off walking over the hillside with a view of the Valley of the Rocks then circled round and walked round the other side of the rocks, it was a good 5 mile walk and certainly made me feel better.

We found this little stream running down to a bay and Andy took some really cool pics

When we got back we then headed up to our B & B, which was nice, warm and cosy, it was a struggle to stay awake and we ended up having a quick nap before heading for dinner at the pub next door.

The next day, we got up had a nice cooked breakfast then parked at the bottom of the Watersmeet section of the East Lyn and walked up the side of the river.

It was a dry and mild day and there were loads of other walkers out and about, no kayakers paddling whilst we were walking but saw a few getting on as we left.

We also walked up the Horeoak that joins into the Lyn, this is a very impressive section of water with waterfalls.

 I'd defiantly recommend walking here its a great spot.

Walking in the Peak District & Wales

Andy and I managed to get a week off work at the end of the summer, so we decided to head up to the Peak District to camp and go walking, A few years back i stay in a National Park Campsite above Bakewell in the Stanage area and we headed up to try and find it again, we managed it after driving around for a while because the Sat Nav couldn't locate the post code.

We set up our tent and then cooked good old pasta munt for dinner. We got up the next day and were greeted by a beautiful sunny day, we then took a wonder round Stanage, a place well known for its climbing. We didn't do any climbing just had a nice long walk exploring.

Pretty view from the top of Stanage

We then packed up and headed over to North Wales where we had some friends that lived 20 mins from Snowdon. We went for a stroll round Betsy Coed during the day then headed to this for a yummy dinner in the evening.

We got up the next day and walked round Snowdon, we were lucky with the weather and had a gloriously sunny day.

After spending a couple of days in North Wales then we headed down to South Wales to visit Robin and Fran, where they took us for a walk along a river.

Sunday Walk

Last Sunday fancied going for a nice walk so took the fattest dog (she could do with some exercise) up to the Avon Dam and whilst we where there of course had to check out the river as well.

little fat Dog (Sophie)

The dam had quite abit of water coming over it

A rather rocky kinda slide

As u can see some areas of the river were still a little rocky and there was a lot of low trees

Nice little pool drop

Dog Walking at Bovey Reservoirs

Took my doggies for a walk at Bovey Tracy Reservoirs, a nice three and a quarter mile walk

Jinty taking a dip

A nice view

Sophie having a little paddle

Patch trying to decide where to go swimming

Walking with my dogs

Dog walking at Belford Woods in Ashburton with my four nutty dogs and my mum

Patch looking very stupid

Jinty keeping watch

My Mum and Sophie

A very through the woods