Isle of Man Coastal Path

Tonight we are sleeping in the same place again, so we are doing today's section of walking in reverse- a bus seven miles up the road, and then walking back to the same finish point as yesterday. Off the bus in Kirk Michael, and a road through a caravan park takes us to the shore The sea is too high to get straight to the beach, but a short sandy path takes us to a place we can join the beach  The beach has very precarious looking sandy cliffs here Looking at the seaweed and tide lines on the beach, at a high tide the sea can go right up to the cliffs, which you really don't want to be that close to. Our guidebook advises that this section is rarely impassable, but there are other places on the coast with a similar prognosis further along. As high tide is around 2pm tomorrow we may not be able to take on the whole coastal route. Some planning tonight will be required It was however, lovely to enjoy a completely flat se...

A shorter walk today of around 6 miles, with much better weather! Outside our sleeping spot at Dalby hub Tom went on a solo venture to Niarbyl beach, which we skipped yesterday at the end of the walk in favour of a more direct road route The quaint cottage from above is just visible in this picture Then off we went together towards Peel, leaving the road for a grassy gorsey path There were many instances of not-accounting-for-rucksacks kissing gates, bit of a squeeze! The bay at the end of Glen Maye coming into view Descending to the bay  Pretty rough waves still, but pleasant in the sun. We crossed the bridge to explore, but then came back over to follow the stream into the glen. A lovely sheltered spot... ...but we are beckoned again to head up and out of the glen The track took us back up to grassy cliffs Where we spotted what we thi...

Falcons nest hotel where we stayed Another fine breakfast to see us on the way Port Erin beach with the tide much further in today A benefactor of the town with a family name (to those not in the know, Gran was a Milner) Milner’s tower on the far cliff, where we are heading  Curving along the bay checking for seals and basking sharks, but no confirmed sightings  A lovely treeish area Emerging at the top of Milner's tower Windy up top Looking back to Port Erin from the top The far tip of the island with the Calf of Man visible And looking the way we are going next And back out of the base of the tower Further up the hill and looking back to the tower Slopes down to the sea Heathery mud tracks Looking ahead to further hills along the coast, we have to get beyond them to the lower ground today But first a steep decent to the valley  A short road section turns into a greenway, which we used to bypass the top of the second hill due to increasing wind speeds (still a fair bit o...