Today's talk was of about seven miles length, initially along the cliff looking down on the Yealm and then back inland across fields to Bovisand Bay for lunch with a coastal walk back to Wembury to finish with.

The weather had certainly attracted plenty of ramblers and over 40 us arrived the car park just above Wembury beach for this walk. Don Millgate was the leader for the day and he gave us a good briefing at the start and then we were off at 10.30 AM. The views from the car park were quite spectacular, looking out across Wembury Beach towards Mewstone about a mile away out to sea.	We started off by walking back towards the mouth of the Yealm, which is one of the most popular boat anchorages in the whole of the West Country. There were superb views looking both up and down the Yealm from the high vantage point we had on the cliffs and boats were motoring up the river as we made our way towards Warren Point.
From Warren Point we had good views looking up towards Newton Ferrers in one direction and up the Yealm towards the boats still on the water in the other direction. We stopped just near Warren Point for morning coffee. The leaving the Yealm estuary, we turned inland back towards Wembley itself. Before long we were passing Wembury House, an attractive house in its own walled garden.	Apparently in its day this was the local manor house. We were soon crossing the main street of Wembury ,near the village pub and then the walk took us across several fields and many stiles. Some of the footpaths went straight through the middle of fields, where farmers have ploughed the land.
Before long we were passing another old Manor, now called the Langdon Court Hotel, I didn't even know it existed. It was suggested that the Raleigh and his family once used this house many centuries ago. Crossing more fields, we continued on and could see HeyBrook Bay to our left and a hamlet called Down Thomas ahead across a valley .	We had several stiles to cross, these certainly spread the group out with the lerge number having to queue to cross each stile. Approaching Down Thomas we dropped down into a Valley crossed a narrow bridge and then up and over some obviously new stiles of an unusual design.
As can be seen from the picture, the stiles had been ergonomically designed since there was a little V section to make it easy to get across, rather than the normal horizontal bar Leaving Down Thomas we walked on road for a few hundred yards passing a private development called Manor Bourne. We then dropped down towards the Bovisand Bay chalets for lunch. There were magnificent views looking across the sea to Rame Head in the distance and the Breakwater stood out well from our vantage point above the sea. We soon left the road by Manor Bourne and followed a narrow track.	We continued our way down the track until we came to the holiday village, with its multitude of chalets. We stopped there for our late lunch. It was approaching 1.30 pm by the time we got to Bovisand. Don had thought we would have got here earlier, but the stiles and the large numbers had slowed our group down somewhat. The Fort Bovisand Diving Centre stood out well across the bay on the eastern entrance to Plymouth Sound and I could recognise boats owned by my friends still out on the water. Mary Bullen was easily recognisable as she motored in past the breakwater.
After lunch we were back on the South West Coastal path. We made our way along this very popular section of the path, with the sun now low in the sky, and we were soon level with the Shagstone Rock and reef just offshore. The Sagstone looked very tranquil on such a beautiful day. Only two weeks before however it had been the scene of a tragedy when a boat returning from France with four persons on board had hit the rocks, at night, with the loss of the skipper, the other three having been recovered from the sea and shore following an air sea rescue. It must have been entirely different scene that night with a strong south westerly gale blowing.	We continued along the coastal path for about a half mile before we walked into Heybrook Bay which nestles just below the naval gunnery establishment of HMS Cambridge. There are several large houses in this pretty village, all with excellent views of the sea.
The coast path and followed the coast below the wire fence surrounding HMS Cambridge. As we made our way below the gunnery unit we passed the Mewstone island just offshore. We had good views of the several large guns that fire throughout the week from this naval gunnery school range. We began to meet lots of people who were obviously out for the afternoon stroll from Wembury, about a mile away around the headland. We continued along a flat and relatively low level coastal path, with the sea just below us of our right hand side.	This section of coast is obviously well protected sitting in the lee of the Mewstone, if that were not just offshore, there would have been a terrific amount of erosion in this area from the south westerly gales. In the distance, we could see the Wembury Church and the beach below with the car park just behind it. On a day like this it certainly looks very attractive and by just before three o'clock we were making our way across the head of the beach and up to the car park at the end of the walk.

It had been another good Sunday walk in excellent conditions and once again Don had led the walk in his inimitable fashion, relaxed and easy going.

Let's hope the remaining walks of this year can be done in such pleasant, easy conditions. I have my doubts though with winter very much on it's way.