Day 33 - we’re being eaten alive

There are mosquitoes everywhere here and poor Charlie is being eaten alive. But we only have one full day here so we made the most of it with lots of activities for Marla, even though the weather has been awful we braved the dog beach this morning so she could finally have a proper swim. Unfortunately there were a few things going against us. We didn’t think about checking tide times, there was only a very small area of beach and it was covered in driftwood, seaweed and dog poo and the sea was very rough…. but popped Marla’s life jacket on and let her have a splash as much as she wanted to - which turned out it wasn’t that long. So we headed back to hose her down to wash away all the salt and dry everyone off - I forgot to say it was also raining….

We hunkered down for a bit longer, then Charlie popped to the little shop next top camp for some bread to go with cheese for lunch.

The afternoon was forecast for more rain, but we thought we would brave it and head out into the forest which you can access from camp through a secure gate, to keep the wild boar from rampaging through the camp! There were a few footpaths on the AllTrails app so we picked a direction and headed out. The trail started out really good, nice and flat, good surface and just as I made a comment about what a lovely walk this was, the trail literally disappeared in front of us. We backtracked and Charlie noticed a different trail a bit further away, we could reach it if we scrambled over some wet, loose and slippery rocks. For some reason I agreed to give it a go. Spoiler alert - we should have just followed the same trail all the way back to camp.
We followed the new trail, which had a lot of wild boar activity all around it, it got narrower and became overgrown, but still passable. Until it wasn’t 😂 We could see that if we went just a bit more forwards that it will join up with the trail we started on, so we pulled our hoods up and put our heads down and ploughed on through. Turns out the path wasn’t really straight ahead of us, but up a steep bank. So it was pretty much a hands and feet job to climb up and out and on to the path. The good news was that we were pretty much back at camp - not sure how that happened!

Dinner tonight was an interesting mix of stuffed pasta, flageolet beans and these strange vegetarian escalope type things which was sort of like a fake chicken mixed with spinach. It was strangely solid….

We can’t sit out, so another night wrapped up in the van watching a couple more episodes of silent witness and doing a bit more crochet. We move in tomorrow and I really hope we find some sunshine!Læs mere