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| Start of Lizs bike training | 2012-07-08 | Along the estuary and canal to the swing bridges and back. The start of Lizs cycle training apparently
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| Swing bridges and back again | 2012-08-12 | To the swing bridges and back
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| Swing Bridge and Powderham Castle | 2012-02-23 | Along the estuary and canal to the Swing Bridge and back again with a detour to Powderham Castle for supplies
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| Exeter bike ride | 2022-08-08 | Maintenance bike ride
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| Teign valley | 2023-10-21 | From Castle Drogo down to Fingle Bridge for a coffee and cake. Scooby Hound liked the walk.
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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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| Motorway bridge and back | 2017-12-21 | A slow puncture put paid to the ride into Exeter. Got back without having to change the tyre but it did need pumping up a couple of times.
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| Dogmarsh Bridge Fingle Bridge | 2015-10-19 | Along the Teign Valley as the trees start to change colour for the autumn.
We've done this walk a few times before but it was unusual this time due to the "art in the woods" (see the photos) and Castle Drogo being completely covered in scaffolding and tarpaulins.
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| Breakfast at Mylor | 2015-09-13 | Walk with wife and hound to Mylor for some breakfast. Then along to watch the kids from Restronguet Sailing Club playing "how many times can you capsize a Mirror" in the F5ish winds
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| First paddle of 2015 | 2015-06-07 | Up the Exe stuary to Topsham and under the motorway bridge.
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| Dogmarsh Bridge to Fingle Bridge | 2015-03-28 | With Liz and Julian from Dogmarsh Bridge to Fingle Bridge.
Wedding at pub at Fingle Bridge meant no river side drinkies.
Wedding ring finger got bitten by something again - finger badly swollen but not anywhere near as painful as last time (but only just got the wedding ring off before the swelling was too great).
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Fingle Bridge
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| Dogmarsh Bridge to Fingle Bridge | 2013-01-13 | Along the Teign Valley below Castle Drogo. First sun in weeks but it doesnt get high enough to reach the floor of the gorge. Scooby celebrated by going AWOL for 5 minutes.
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Dogmarsh Bridge
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| New Powderham bridge | 2014-09-28 | After seven years of talking, planning and objections the bridge for the final section of the Exe Estuary cycle trail at Powderham finally went in.
Of course, we weren't cycling on the way to the Turf Locks
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| Flushing and Mylor | 2014-09-18 | A round trip from Mylor Bridge to Flushing and then back via Mylor Harbour.
Very nice lunch at the cafe at Mylor harbour.
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| Swing Bridges bike ride | 2021-04-01 | Slow ride to Swing Bridges
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| Swing Bridges and SYC | 2021-04-30 | Down to Dawlish Warren for the bakery then up to the Swing Bridges and then back via SYC to pick up everything I'd left there on Wednesday. And some sea weed.
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| Exminster bike ride | 2021-10-27 | Swing Bridges bike ride
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| Swing Bridges and Sainsburys | 2020-11-24 | More cycling
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| First time on new cycle track | 2014-11-29 | Lizs first cycle ride in ages and first ride on new cycle track between Powderham church and the Turf Locks
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| Swing bridge and back again | 2014-03-08 | A lovely cycle ride to the Swing Bridges. Bit of a sod on the way back straight into the southerly force 5 all the way. Aidans first time back on the bike for a couple of months.
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| Lizzie bike ride | 2014-03-07 | First time back on the bike after a couple of very wet months. To the Swing Bridges and back again.
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| First cycle ride in months | 2016-10-10 | First bike ride in a very long time. Only as far as the Countess Wear swing bridges over the Exeter Canal.
Work is about half way through the 14 month schedule of work on the swing bridge / roads.
As per the pictures, one of the bridges was open because of the work.
The swing bridges are being retained but re-aligned during the work.
The bridges have history - there's a plaque on them that reads "In May 1944, these bridges played an important part in the preparations for D-Day. They were used over a period of three days and nights, for rehearsals of the famous and crucial glider borne attack on the bridge over the Canal de Caen (Pegasus Bridge) and the River Orne (Horsa Bridge), by the Second Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, on the night 5/6 June 1944"
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| Swing Bridges | 2017-10-02 | To the Swing Bridges and back with Liz
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| Swing bridges and back via Powder Castle | 2013-08-12 | Along the estuary and canal to the Swing Bridges and then back via Powderham Castle
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| Swing bridges and back | 2013-03-03 | Along the estuary and canal to the swing bridges on the newly serviced bikes. Stopped for a cup of coffee at the Turf on the way back
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| Swing Bridges cycle ride | 2020-08-13 | Was going to be further but Liz didn't like the thunder. Slow - very slow.
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| Dawlish Warren and Swing Bridges | 2020-12-22 | Pre-work cycle ride
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