Port Erin to Dalby


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 of up and down though!)


And an hour or two later on the road we used to bypass the third hill, because the freezing wind brought the rain and the fog too. Everything unpleasant!

At a windy junction deciding on the fastest way to Dalby

View of Niarbyl Bay ahead, lots of waves

A visualisation of the weather 

What a day to be born! Some very tiny lambs. Many of the sheep in the field were yet to have their lambs, and these looked very fresh and a bit wrinkly still!

Inside the church that we’re sleeping in the basement of in Dalby: St James’s 

The old schoolroom attached to the church with its unusual original sliding walls to divide the space. Not exactly warm, but much better than being outside 

Downstairs in our den with a little fireplace and fold out bed, plus informative displays! This used to be the schoolmaster’s quarters.

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