Exploring East Devon #7 :: Another Day in Sidmouth

Hi there everyone 😀

We are back in Devon for today's post. It was the Monday of our second week and the last day of summer. It was forecast for another scorcher and we decided to load up the car and have a beach day on the Jacob's Ladder beach, back in Sidmouth.

Well ... as you can see our timing was a bit out and our plans seemed to be thwarted, at least for now anyway ... not quite the glorious sandy beach that I had in mind ...

We decided to avail ourselves of the cafe in the Connaught Gardens whilst we re-thought our day ...

We'd wanted to eat here when we'd wandered through the gardens previously so it was no hardship at all ...

We decided on another wander around the gardens ... 

... taking in the views with the tide in ... which was completely different ...

We also collected the last of some information that we needed to finish off a Geocache that we had started looking for on our previous visit ...

We then opted for a walk down the slope that you can see in the above picture and down to the beach ...

It looked so different to the huge wide sandy beach we'd seen previously and we decided to have a walk back along the Millenium Walkway and into the town centre in the hope that by the time we made our way back the tide would be on the way out ...

The town centre was quite busy but we did have a bit of a wander. It definitely looked like a nice place to explore on a quieter day ...

By the time we were ready to start to head back the tide was well on the way out and we were able to walk along the beach ...

I soon had my shoes and socks off and paddled my way along the beach through the rockpools ...

... and it was just so lovely that even Martin had a paddle ...

Eventually it was time to head back up the hill ...

... where this was our view ...

It was breathtakingly stunning.

We grabbed our picnic from the car and found a lovely spot back in the Connaught Gardens for a lovely finish to a glorious day 😀

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