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So it’s good to be home but oh, how I will miss the South West Coast Path. In the guide Wainwrite is quoted in relation to the Pennine way, but you substitute the SWCP: “You have completed a missionand satisfied and ambition. You have walked the SWCP as you dreamed of doing. This will be…

The following are from the final day.

And so to the final leg of this wonderful journey. I am joined by four companions, Gavin (my Son), Graham for the second day, Pete Hoyles and Matthew Nicholls, friends for over 35 years. The weather gods are not happy as Gav and I make our way to meet the oteher in the quarry at…

So the penultimate day of the journey starts with a fond fairwell to beautiful Lulworth Cove. The path to the East is shut as the ranges of the British Army are in action and they do not like moving walkers as targets. So the start point is Kimmeridge Bay, a very famous fossil area, and…

So we are really heading for home now, familiar sights and places on the horizon. On my own today, and happy to have a day to really ponder what a fantastic experience this has been, a lot of thanks to lots of people but will do that at the end of the journey. I left…

Some of the photos that did not appear on the original post.

I was not particularly looking forward to this leg of the big walk, Portland to me has always been a quarry, and in terms of progress it did not move me closer to the finish line. How wrong to pre judge. I was met for breakfast by my old friend Neil, also know as Eddie…

After a wonderful stay and breakfast with Jackie and Duncan, the best hosts ever, I left their beautiful home and detoured to look at St Catherines Chapel built in the late 14th Century and dominating the skyline above Abbotsbury and the surrounding area. From there a steep slope down to the Swannery and there was…

Not a cloud in the sky as I meet my new walking partner for the day Quiver Brown, another long time friend who I spend a lot of time with. We meetb on the quayside at Seatown beach and the world is not quite awake on a glourious Sunday morning. Except for the beautiful sail…