The GPS Blog| Activity | Activity date | Activity description |
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| Luskentyre Sands - a new favourite | 2022-05-14 | Scooby Hound in love with the beach at Luskentyre Sands on Harris.
Miles and miles of pristine sand with views across to Taransay.
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West Harris
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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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| Exe to Dartmouth | 2013-06-08 | An SYC cruiser race from the Exe Safe Water Mark to the entrance of the Dart at Dartmouth. Then up to Dittisham for the night moored up on a visitors buoy.
I think I need a new GPS with a bit more memory as the start of this GPS track seems to have been lost as the available memory was overwritten by the next days sail down to Plymouth.
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june-west-country-cruise
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| Dartmouth to Plymouth sail | 2013-06-09 | A great sail in Dereks Sadler 26 from Dittisham on the Dart to QAB marina at Plymouth. Lovely strength winds but a lot from straight behind Wind strength better than forecast. Seas a bit rolly at times but not too bad at Start Point as we were there at slack water.
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june-west-country-cruise
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| Eype, West Bay and Bridport | 2018-04-16 | From Eype over high (Jurassic) cliffs to West Bay. About a F4 but southerly so entering West Bay harbour by boat would have been problematic - and a bit bouncy one inside on the outer pontoons.
Then up by the Birt River to Bridport.
Not sure why the usually excellent South West Coastpath web site (https://www.southwestcoastpath.org.uk/) recommended going into Bridport - just some muddy fields and a housing estate!
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West Bay
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| West Parley visit | 2021-10-22 | Camper vanning in West Parley for a meet up with old school friends.
Went for a walk down Church Lane past the Multiple Sclerosis day centre and then on to the River Stour. Lots of Whiteley family memories / connections.
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West Parley
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| West Burra - Kettla Ness | 2026-06-09 | An excellent stomp around West Burra with glorious views and glorious weather!
Across a couple of causeways / bridges and down to the end of West Burra.
Just for once, a walk without much archeology on show. Just a lot of sky, cliffs, seas and sheep.
Where the track speed goes to zero for a while is where I very sensibly sat out the bit of the walk that went to The Heugg (and wouldn't lend the GPS to Liz in case she fell off)!
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West Burra
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