Windy Wild Camping

After a quick breakfast of half an egg sandwich and some cereal bars, we packed up and headed for Lynmouth. The path was relatively easy going with a few big ascents and a lot of rhododendrons. Olly spotted a heard of red deer but not the pack of sea kayakers.

We made the steep descent into Lynmouth and just as it started raining made it to a cafe. In 1899 a ship had floundered off the coast and with it being too rough to launch from Lynmouth 100 men and 20 horses carried the life boat all the way to Porlock (the 11 miles we had just walked).

From Lynmouth we made the steep ascent to the valley of the rocks where long horned wild goats can be observed peering over from the top. We continued past Heddon Mouth and found a scenic but windy camping spot for the night (as I was too scared to jump a fence).