Weekend Walk

Wasn't the weather glorious at the weekend? Well for a change it was here. We are always torn at the weekends with the desire to relax, have a lie in and just generally potter around, but then guilt kicks in and we feel like we must go do something and this normally hits us right around lunch time!! After grabbing something to eat or even packing a picnic we head out the door in the direction of the coast! So Saturday lunch time we did the reverse of our walk at Easter from Dumpton Gap to Broadstairs.


This time the sun shone though it was still very breezy, a deceptive wind that makes you catch the sun and leaves your nose all pink and face all tingly! What with the reflection from both sides, white cliffs and sea I know we are all going to catch the sun.


We started at the bandstand, well strictly speaking we started from home and walked the 10 minutes it takes to get down the hill! Well fifteen minutes if you take into account little legs - that would be mine included!



Weaving our way down to the seafront, clouds scudded across the sky and you could hear the crash of the waves from the cliff top.



As the tide was high we walked along the sea wall with the sea to our left and the white cliffs stretching up to our right - above is a picture looking back towards Broadstairs.


I love this walk, it was one of the first we discovered when we moved to Broadstairs. With no children back then we would arm ourselves with croissants and a flask of coffee and just head for a bay when the tide was low. When you get round the corner the beaches are fairly deserted apart from the old walker or two, though you do have to be careful and watch the tide to make sure your near a set of steps as it is easy to get cut off!


Now we head down there with the children mainly at low tide for rock pooling and building forts to try and stop the incoming tide from getting any further! Of course we never win and aways end up on an island with the sea splashing all around us until our nerves give in and we race back to the safety of the steps.


The chalk cliffs are so soft there are faces and artwork to be seen along this whole stretch of wall walk plus people and couples have carved there names over the years, though this also means because they are soft the cliffs are eroding like much of our coast land.


Some evidence of a cliff slide.


These flowers are growing all over the chalk, they shine a brilliant yellow against the white of the cliffs.



This sideways shot looked like noses sticking out of the cliff to me - though what are they smelling? The sea or the breeze, maybe both!



'Magic Eye' - how many faces can you see in the picture below? I see three - click on the image for a closer look.



My two naughty children taking a rest 'what are they conspiring?'




A Skelly face - cool for Halloween.



The Lifeboat races past us on it's way to Ramsgate. I hope it's just a practice run.




I think this gnome face has to be my favourite - now if he was sat on a mushroom that would be perfect!


We're back up at the top of the cliff now, we've reached Dumpton Gap and climbed up the steep path. Our next port of call on the way home, some friends with an invite of spritzers and cold beers with nibbles and to just sit in the seclusion of their back garden for an afternoon of banter while the children run off and play.



My face is tingling today with all that sea breeze and the sunshine. Have a lovely Monday I'm off to find some aloe vera!