Pilgrims

This is the 14th century St Michael's Chapel at Rame Head. The couple in the picture had been walking short sections of the coastal path during weekends and holidays for several years...

After Cawsand and Kingsand, and a long but pleasantly wooded stretch through Mount Edgcumbe Country Park, I caught the Cremyll ferry across the river Tamar, the border between Devon (on the east) and Cornwall (on the west). It landed me in Plymouth, the end point of my journey. Here's Smeaton's lighthouse on Plymouth Hoe, the place where Sir Francis Drake insisted on finishing his game of bowls before going out to defeat the Spanish Armada - the ultimate in English cool...

And this is the exact spot (known as the Mayflower Steps) from where the Mayflower set sail in 1620, carrying the Pilgrim Fathers to the colony that would become known as Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA. The rest, as they say, is history...

Warships have changed quite a bit since the wooden galleons of Drake's time. This photo was taken in Plymouth's naval dockyards...

So I'd reached the end of my long trek around the coast of Devon and Cornwall. It was an abrupt ending, as endings often are. In a month I'd walked over 400 miles and completed about two-thirds of the whole trail. 200 miles, from Plymouth to Poole, still remained. Some day I would return...

The Solitary Walker is taking a break from blogging and blogreading for a while. He will be back!