A Trip To The Seaside

Start Bay - First Caravan Club Site

Tuesday 21st June and a couple of nights by the seaside was on the menu.  Leaving home at 11.30 we arrived at just after 12.30 after a pretty hairy journey down through the small villages past Kingsbridge, lots of starting and stopping and a meeting with the bus.  

The lady in Reception was very friendly and gave us a map of the site showing the free pitches, we chose a hardstandings that looked bigger than the rest but which was a bit under the trees but had lots of space for sitting in the sunshine.  We soon had the kettle on and everything set up, or so we thought, on the upside it was the most pitch we have had so far, on the downside after about an hour when the water didn't seem to be heating up we discovered the hook up wasn't working.  After some pushing and shoving we decided to seek help from the warden and he soon had it fixed allowing us to go for a walk to Sokeley Farm Shop.  The sun was shining and we had a lovely cream tea on the cafe, there was a very good shop and small garden centre, very well worth a visit.

Back on site we had discovered that Tuesday night was fish and chip night so we ditched the idea of pizza and very good they were too although we did have to wait a long time for theme! We also discovered that the television reception was very poor and the phone signal non existent, must remember to put a length of co-axial cable in the van as there were booster sockets on the hook up post.  

On the first night I took my sleeping pill and it worked a treat and I had a good night for about the first time in Bobbo!!  

The next morning we had bacon and egg and got ready to walk down to Torcross, after some deliberation I decided to wear my walking shoes, bad move as it turned out.  The walk down took about a quarter of an hour and was partly on the busy road, but was not as bad as I expected.  We walked for a while along the Ley and then cross over and walked to the Memorial Car Park on the beach.   We saw swans with their signets and ducks and ducklings as well as other water birds.  We sat on the beach and ate our snack,  by this time my toe was really hurting and by the time we had walked back to Torcross I was hobbling, note to self wear more comfortable shoes next time.  

In the evening, having recovered from our 5.5 mile walk we took a 10 minute stroll to the Church House Inn at Stokenham for a very nice meal.  I had salmon with a spinach and crab sauce and John had the gammon.   We got back to Bobbo and made up the beds as we were very tired with all that exercise!

Next morning was Referendum day so after having breakfast outside in the sunshine we packed up and headed for home, again meeting not one but two double decker buses and had to reverse for one. We got home before lunch after a very pleasant interlude by the sea.

The site was pleasant but quite crowded, probably noisy in the school holidays and would avoid.