Wow, wake up to appreciate another one of the amazing design features of the shepherd’s hut – the cut-out tree in the shutters above our bed creates a beautiful pattern on the wall when the sun shines! Yippee the sun is shining.

Sadly, we’ve had to miss a days walking. There was torrential rain yesterday and it seemed a shame to walk Golden Cap in miserable weather so we took a day out. But now it is time to leave West Bexington behind. Park up at Seatown and find the pathway just behind some cottages. I’m at first apprehensive knowing that Golden Cap is the highest point on the south coast and knowing how tough some of the ascents have been but this is fairly gradual. The weekend and the sunshine have brought out a lot of other walkers including many young children with their families.

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It’s a slow descent to the village of Charmouth. We walk over the foot bridge to the car park then up to the village to buy lunch and back to the beach where we sit and listen to all the people hitting stones with hammers??? I think it is time to catch a bus back to Chideock and find our car.