Log No 362. Tue 1st Jul 2014 - Chapel St Leonards to Saltfleetby, 15 miles (5529 miles walked)

There was a bit of rain through the night but the sun was shining when I got up and I was away at 08.20.

I thought I would be able to walk all the way to Mablethorpe on the beach but by the time I had walked the 2 miles to Anderby Creek I decided against it.

The tide was high and there was no hard packed sand to walk on, just soft gravel making it hard going to maintain a good pace.

There was no footpath so I walked on the minor road to Sutton on Sea where there was a seafront cyclepath all the way to Mablethorpe.

The tide was going out and the beach looked to be all sand now. Even though it's not the school holidays yet the beach at Mablethorpe was quite busy with parties of school children here on day trips.

I took a wander into the town centre to get some food for tonight and snacks for tomorrow.


Mablethorpe is not very big and it was only a short promenade, there was no coastal footpath so I walked on the beach, there was plenty of hard packed sand.

There seemed to be a lot of holiday makers and for the first mile out of the town the beach was busy. I had been passing large numbered markers and wondered what they were for. The question was answered when a train overtook me and stopped at one of them, they were request stops, 6 of them in about a mile.

I didn't see any kite surfers in the sea and just the one on the sand.

It wasn't long though before I had the beach to myself, the tide was a good way out and at times all I could see was sand. With the hot sun and the shimmering from the heat I could easily imagine I was alone in a desert.

With very few features to guide me it wasn't easy to know exactly where I was and it was more luck than good judgement that I cut back inland right to a road end, I was actually further north than I thought I might have been.

I had a short footpath to walk on then it was a half hour on the roads to get to the small campsite in Saltfleetby All Saints, arriving at 14.40.

It had been a hot day but the offshore breeze made the 15 miles bearable.