The GPS Blog| Activity | Activity date | Activity description |
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| Prawle Point and The Pigs Nose Pub | 2018-09-01 | Down to Prawle Point - the most southerly point in Devon and a headland well known to sailors!
Pint at the Pigs Nose pub.
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East Prawle
Prawle Point
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| Dittisham to QAB Plymouth | 2015-06-21 | Round from Dittisham on the Dart to Queen Annes Battery marina in Plymouth. With the wind forecast to be F4 to F5 from the west and most of the trip being westwards, this was going to be an interesting trip. Start Point planning was spot on - we arrived just at the very last of the flood tide meaning little adverse tide but, more importantly, no wind over tide. So Start Point was a pussy cat. Prawle Point and Bolt Head made up for this though. With wind over tide by then, the seas there were "interesting" as the wind gusted to 22 knots (low end of a force 6). Some of the biggest overfalls I've been through for quite some time! As we got to Bigbury Bay the wind was a better angle and we got to sail rather than the motor sailing we did from just past Start. Into QAB about 8pm.
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Prawle Point
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| Colyton - muddy - very muddy! | 2016-03-04 | Round the rebellious village of Colyton. Muddy. Very muddy. Like a muddy year at Glastonbury - say 1984 perhaps - but without 30000 people off their heads.
Oh - and Scooby didn't like the hail at the end of the walk but he did enjoy the run about on Beer beach afterwards. A dip or two in the sea cleaned off a lot of the mud from him.
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East Devon
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| Weymouth to Topsham | 2016-11-14 | From Weymouth round Portland Bill to Topsham at the top of the Exe.
Stage three in bringing Derek H's new Fulmar back to the Exe.
With very big Spring tides, we took the offshore route around the East Shambles buoy and a few miles off Portland Bill.
With the wind pretty much on the nose after we turned west, we motored most of the way back from Portland Bill.
With the wind varying between 12 and 20 knots against us and 1 or 2 knots of tide with us, the first half of the journey back to the Exe (after Portland Bill) was a little bouncy at times.
We reached the Exe just as it got dark - the trip back up the Exe in the dark and with big tides was interesting! With the Exe's mix of lit and unlit buoys and moorings encroaching on the channel, I really wouldn't recommend going up the Exe at night without local knowledge!
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East Shambles
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| Budleigh to Otterton hound walk | 2020-06-19 | Scooby's been complaining about "just going round the block" so we took him for a stroll from Budleigh Salterton to Otterton via East Budleigh (birthplace of Sir Walter Raleigh).
Didn't see any beavers in the Otter River but did see their teeth marks on trees.
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East Budleigh
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| The Golden Road - East Harris | 2022-05-14 | A visit to Tarbet and then back south along the "golden road". Lots of theories as to why it is called "golden" but most likely is the cost.
The landscape is very "lunar" for much of the route - lots of rocks and some moorland.
An otter spotted us before we made a quick escape.
For about 25 miles of single track road, there seems to be absolutely no part that is either straight or on the flat. Very much a 2nd and 3rd gear road.
Lots of cyclists in the Outer Hebrides but we only saw 2 on this road - daft sods!
The recorded average speed of 19.9 mph includes the "easy" road back up the west side of the island.
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East Harris
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