Salcombe

Staying on a lovely CL with great views of the counryside around Kingsbridge estuary.
We walked across the hills into Salcombe, which is a lovely town on the side of the estuary, a very popular holiday destination and full of very up market homes on the waters edge and high on the valley sides. The town is very boat oriented. We enjoyed a tea and coffee at a harbourside cafe/bar and watched some very large and small sea bass feeding in the shallow water below us. As tempting as it was to get the rods out the estuary is a designated nursery area for sea bass which accounts for the number and size of the fish enjoying life in their safe haven.
The next day we set off for a walk across the fields and valleys to our south to pick up the South West Coatal Path at Soar. We enjoyed a great walk along the cliffs back into Salcombe via South Sands where we enjoyed a cuppa in the old lifeboat station on tables mounted on the old slip way. The ferry into Salcombe from here was busy and the moving pontoon interesting to watch as it trundled down into the sea.Read more