Hi I was working on the Isle of Wight yesterday, I came over on Monday and home today.
Finished the meeting at 16:00 and the sun is shinning ......
I had grabbed a towel from the hotel in the morning - just in case, but you never think it will work out if you make any sort of plans !
I headed down to the beach, I had found some directions on the web which were really handy, so parked the car up and wondered down .... Wow it is a bit of a climb, steep there is even a piece of rope in one part that was very handy.
Got to the beach and headed off to the right, where there were a few people already enjoying the sun
I settled down and got comfortable - lovely and warm so went for a swim
Decided to go for a wonder as there seemed to be a lot of flies buzzing around i have no idea what food there is for them ? maybe some seaweed ? the flies would not get bored landing on me so time to move on I got bored swatting them !
I picked up my kit wrapped in the towel and headed off up the beach .... Had a very gentle wander up the beach for a couple of miles, wandered back and had a long swim around 18:30 the beach was empty, and such a brilliant site all to myself !
All very relaxing after a bit of a stressful day !!
Just a real shame Denise was not with me as it would have been perfect then
The walk back to the car nearly finished me off !!! It really is a steep climb, maybe I need to be a bit fitter
Popped into a curry house in Newport on my way back to the hotel
So a good end to a not so fantastic day
Cheers
Simon
i live near blackgang and visit regularly and just to say the walk back to the car park never gets easier...lol
Used to do it from the car park some years ago and it was bad enough then, particularly the frayed rope abseiling bit!
I imagine nature has not made it any easier since then.
My preferred summer route is walking from Atherfield when the tide is suitable. Hardly see a soul now that Whale Chine is apparently impossible to negotiate.