Had another great weekend away, camping at the small village of Hinderwell, on the East Coast of England near to Whitby. Our last camping trip of the year and a great way to finish off in good warm sunny conditions. We have been here before on a couple of occasions and really like it, quiet and peaceful and good walking right from the tent door. Arriving on the Friday afternoon, we had plenty of time for a quick walk along the cliffs to the quaint little fishing village of Staithes, with narrow cobbled streets and harbour. A good few hours in the afternoon sun.
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| The walk along the cliff tops into Staithes |
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| Looking down on Staithes |
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| Nice colourful cobbled street |
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| Staithes |
The main walk we did was on the Saturday and one we have done before but this time in the opposite direction. A linear walk meant that we had to catch the bus, which conveniently stops in the village a hundred yards from the campsite and takes us the 9 miles or so into the centre of Whitby where we had a look round at the Abbey, shops and the harbour before the good walk back along the beach and cliff tops back to base, all done in good sunny warm weather :-)
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| Our route for the day |
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| Whitby Abbey |
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| Whitby Abbey |
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| WHAT! WHAT!! |
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| Whitby |
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OOOOO Lemon top ice cream :-)
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We left Whitby behind as we followed the beach road past all the colourful beach huts and folk messing about on the beach enjoying the fine weather. We also came across what was believed to be a lost seal pup on the beach being gaurded over by the lifegaurds awaiting someone to no doubt take him back to the seal colony that live along the coast or one of the small rocky islands out to sea. Nice to see.
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| Whitby Pavillion on the coastal path |
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| Lost seal pup |
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| Colouful beach huts |
The route took us along Whitby sands and onto Sandsend Sands where we had a good rest on the steps leading up from the beach. It was here that the path led us up away from the shore and onto the cliff tops with good views out to sea. Despite being next to the North Sea, it was still quite warm with very little in the way of any sea breezes which can be at bit cool at the best of times. Today though was just a good day to be out in the sun
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| Steps @ Sandsend |
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| Sandsend Beach |
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| Looking back on Sandsend and a distant Whitby |
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| Up to the corn fields and clifftop walk |
The path took us past an old disused Alum Quarry, corn fields, through
another small village, Kettleness, before heading down into another
quaint coastal village of Runswick Bay where we had a rest, a dip in the
sea and a drink overlooking the bay.
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| Looking back to a distant Whitby |
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| The clifftop route ahead |
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| Disused Alum Quarry |
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| Along the cornfields |
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| Runswick Bay in the distance |
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| Kettleness |
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| Going down to Runswick Bay |
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| Runswick Bay |
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| Refreshments @ Runswick Bay |
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| View from the cafe |
From here, it was up and over the last bit of cliffs that took us to Port Mulgrave where we turned of the Cleveland Way and headed back to basecamp for a well earned curry and a pint or two sat by the campfire , happy daze :-)
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| Looking back on Runswick Bay and our clifftop route |
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| Approaching Mulgrave Port |
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| Well deserved curry |
Another great day walking this part of the Cleveland way, that came in about 12 miles, that I can highly recommend if your ever in part of the world.
Cheers :-)
