My Scilly Trip - Tuesday Hike

Today we walked to a beautiful bay. The kind with white powder sand that sparkles turquoise sea, and doesn't look like it belongs in the UK!

It was quite a walk. First on the road, then across the back of a beach, then into a lane and finally onto a track. 

The bracken was waist high and sheltered different hues of purple in the Heather's below. Honeysuckle wove through parts of it, and randomly camomile, thistledown, and daisies sprang towards the light.

The brambles were ever present, as was the sea, as we followed the coast around. 

Huge boulders shored up the land, but local stones full of quartz scattered on the shore, many crushed to glittery powder making the sand sparkle. 

Rocky outcrops meant clambering up and over, each revealing a new panorama. There was much evidence of rabbits in holes, paths, and droppings, but only one white bobtail spotted disappearing into the ferms.

There were Swallows flitting above and around us, and Oyster Catchers calling from the beach as they followed the receding tide.

Butterflies danced and bees hummed while the ebb and flow of the waves below us lulled and soothed.

It took us about 90 minutes, including a couple of photo opportunity stops, to reach the start of the towering Pines that overlook the cove we were aiming for.

There, in the very, VERY, cold Atlantic Ocean we swum along the shore, before flaking out on towels and drying in the sun! 

We eventually took the same route back. Seeing the views from a totally different angle. 

Sadly we had to bid farewell to another volunteer, she is heading home for an important and exciting family event, we are happy for her, but sad to see her go. We watched her ferry slowly glide out onto calm waters and headed back to our 'home' as a trio.

We still had time to lounge a little on the beach beneath our windows, and walk up to the Garrison to watch the sun set.


Life and nature is intertwined here.  There is no concrete jungle to take precedence. 

The climate is a little warmer than mainland UK because of the gulf stream, and that allows all sorts of palms and succulents to thrive, but the bumblebees, the butterflies, the gulls and the sparrows are all very familiar!

Returning to 'normal' life will take some time to adjust to...


But not just yet!

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